Exercises are important to enable students to master English skills, especially writing. When giving exercises the teacher should examine whether the exercises are relevant or not with some aspects considered in writing exercise. In this final project, the writer focuses on the writing exercises presented in Look Ahead 2 (English Course Book for Senior High School Students Year XI). It is an English textbook for the eleventh grade students of senior high school.
The objective of this study is to evaluate writing exercises in Look Ahead 2 in terms of the kinds of tests, KTSP curriculum, basic competence in writing skills, kinds of classroom writing, and types of writing exercise, teach-ability, presence of example, aims, and kinds of practice exercise. This study is a library research using content analysis. Subjects of this research are 74 writing exercises which are displayed in the Look Ahead 2.
The data were collected from the course book of Look Ahead 2 (English Course Book for Senior High School Students Year XI) published by Erlangga. After getting data, the researcher analyzed the data by using nine aspects of writing exercise. They are: the kinds of tests, KTSP curriculum, basic competence in writing skills, kinds of classroom writing, and types of writing exercise, teach-ability, and presence of example, aims, and kinds of practice exercise.
From the analysis the writer found that in term of the kinds of tests, there are 56 discrete tests, 2 communicative tests and 16 combinations between both. In terms of KTSP curriculum, all of the writing exercise is demanded in writing based KTSP curriculum of Senior High School Grade Year XI. In terms of basic competence in writing skills, kinds of classroom writing and types of writing exercises are sufficient enough to improve writing skill because the writing exercises of Look Ahead 2 covers all of those aspects. In terms of teach-ability, there are 2 writing exercises which are not teachable and while there are 61 of 74 writing exercises provide example. The aim of each exercises are based on the material which is taught to the students. In terms of kinds of practice exercise, there are 15 Controlled Exercises (free writing), while 59 are Guided Exercises. So from the findings, the writing exercises in Look Ahead 2 are relevant with those nine aspects of writing exercise.