The Portrayal Of Moral Values In A Senior High School English Textbook Published By Indonesian Ministry Of Educational Culture

Abstract

The purpose of the study is to investigate the depiction of moral values in the EFL textbook of senior high school. The writer uses Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) studies enlightened by Halliday’s (1978) Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) as data analysis. This critical discourse analysis focused on analyzing visual objects and written texts adopting Kress and van Leuween’s (2006) visual grammar theory and Martin and white’s (2005) language appraisal theory to elaborate the moral values embedded with distinct genres in the textbook. The result shows that there are seven moral values portray in EFL textbook directly and indirectly. Thus, the study's consequence is that both instructors and students should be able to develop the essential abilities for critical thinking in reading and critical analysis of language sensitivity in order to comprehend the values. Furthermore, instructors and researchers can use the analytical framework and research findings to provide explicit instruction, assessment, and critical analysis of moral principles in English language teaching.