The Moral Values Represent in Pictures of Prescribed English Textbook for Junior High School in Indonesia Yani Awalia Indah1, Emzir2, Zuriyati3
Budi-DN Awardee, Applied Linguistic Program, Jakarta State University, Jakarta, Indonesia1
Graduate School, Jakarta State University, Jakarta, Indonesia2
Abstract
Abstract: Moral and character education is taught holistic-integralistic in Indonesia. It means that moral and character education is taught integrated in school subjects- language, math, science, etc. English, as a school subject in Junior High School use textbook as learning sources. This text book are consist of pictures. What moral values which are viewed by the pictures are researchable. This paper studies at investigating the moral values in pictures of the prescribed English textbook. The researcher used content analysis method to analyse data in depth. The result of the study revealed that pictures in prescribed textbook view religious, honest, tolerate, discipline, responsible, care, responsive proactive, and good manners. The dominant moral values are honest, care, tolerate, and good manners. Thus result lead to implication that teachers and students should aware of those moral values which are represented in the pictures of mandatory English textbook. Then, they should apply those moral values in their daily lives.
Keywords: moral values, pictures functions, English textbook.
