Analyzing The Compatiblity of reading Material in Junior High Scholl Grade VIII Textbook with the Basic Competence of English Curriculum

Curriculum is the basic concept in educational system. Curriculum covers what and how education ran. Because of it, all of supporting tools are designed to adapt curriculum issues included textbook or other sources. However, new curriculum adaption runs more slowly than curriculum itself. It is found several educational institution only use new curriculum as their label, in fact they still use previous
curriculum in practice. This research is focused on analyzing reading materials in the English textbook entitled Competence-Based English for grade VIII of Junior High
School published by Grafindo Media Pratama (GMP). The writer implemented three methods in doing this research, they were: observed reading class activities, interviewed the Principal and English teachers, and analyzed the reading material in
Competence-Based English textbook. This research aims to find out the compatibility between reading material in Junior High School for grade VIII textbook with basic
competence of school-based curriculum at SMPN 1 Unggul Sukamakmur and also to find good criteria for reading text that relevant to basic competence of school based
curriculum. The research findings show that the reading materials in Competence-Based English textbook for grade VIII of Junior High School were not compatible
with reading basic competence although according to interview results, teachers assumed the reading material were compatible and relevant. The writer also found the
book is written based on competency based curriculum or known as KBK and standard content on 2005. SMPN 1 Unggul Sukamakmur used KTSP as their curriculum but their textbook still based on KBK curriculum. Moreover, a good reading material should be relevant to standard competence and basic competence of curriculum used.