摘要：This study investigates English course book for Senior High School Students based on 2013 Curriculum in order to obtain the 2013 English curriculum objectives. The researchers carried out a research and development method by applying designing the appropriate English course book to be used for the students of Senior High School to improve their English proficiency. The respondents of this study were the tenth grade students of SMA Negeri 1 Sungguminasa Kabupaten Gowa and the English teachers of the school. The instrument of this research was a questionnaire. This questionnaire was designed for need analysis to measure the students’ self perception, prior knowledge of the content of the basic competence of the tenth grade students, and their expectations in learning English and to determine the English course book materials in case of the quality, content, design, strategy use, and the attractiveness of the teaching materials. The results show that the existing an English course materials were far from the competency target curriculum because they do not agree with the English course materials, and they did not meet the students’ need which was based on the content standard of the school curriculum.
关键词：designing; English course book; High School students; 2013 curriculum; local content materials
