A Text Book of Poetry Theory with Contextual Approach (Research and Development in English Department, Teacher Training and Education Faculty, Surakarta, Central Java, Indonesia)

This research is aimed to determine :1) the quality of poetry theory textbook which is used in English Department, Teacher Training and Education Faculty in Surakarta, Central Java, Indonesia; 2) how is the arrangement of poetry theory textbook with contextual approach; 3) the process of textbook prototype getting converting to a textbook; 4) the effectiveness of poetry theory textbook with contextual approach; 5) dissemination of the textbook. This research used Research and Development. It was started by preliminary research for need analysis which was carried out among English Departments in five Teacher Training and Education Faculties in Private Universities in Central Java Indonesia. The five English Departments have taught poetry in the literary class. Then, it was followed by library study exploration. The preliminary draft or prototype of poetry theory textbook was produced which was about to become a poetry theory textbook later. The development of prototype became a textbook was through the expert judgment, preliminary field testing and main field testing. The three of testing was followed by revision. The preliminary field testing was analyzed qualitatively. The main field testing was analyzed by t-test. The effectiveness test of a textbook was analyzed by One Way Anova.