Teacher’ Perception on Reading Materials in Studens’ English Textbook for Senior High School Grade XI Semester I at SMAN 7 and SMAN 10 Padang

Teachers’ perception on the reading materials is essential because it gives valuable input about teaching materials used in the teaching learning process. The main source of teaching materials comes from textbook. This research analyzes reading materials in students’ English textbook of 2013 curriculum for grade XI semester I. The purpose of this research is to describe how are the reading materials in the aspects of aims, texts, and tasks viewed from the teachers’ and the researcher’s perception. Source of the data in this research is divided into two. First is the analysis checklist of reading materials in the students’ English textbook of 2013 curriculum for grade XI semester I filled by three analysts. Two of the analysts are the English teachers at different schools that implement 2013 curriculum while the other one is the researcher herself. The checklist includes three indicators of reading material that are aims, texts, and tasks of the reading material. Second is the interview gotten from the teacher who is also one of the analysts in order get more data about the teacher’s perception on the reading material especially about the strength and weakness of each indicators. After the two data were collected, the data were analyzed based on the three indicators. In accordance to the data analysis, there are three findings found. First, aims of the reading material fulfill the good criteria of reading aim. Second, text of the reading material fulfill good criteria of reading text in the aspect of interest, authenticity, cultural background knowledge, layout, visual, and value. However, in the aspect of lexical knowledge, the texts provide many unfamiliar words and many complex sentences. Third, task of the reading material do not fulfill the good criteria of reading task. The questions in the task are monotonous and do not cover reading skills that are needed by the students.