English Curriculum Theoretical Description

their own curriculum which is appropriate to their schools’ condition, this to create an effective curriculum because each school has different condition and demand. By using their own curriculum, the schools can achieve the objectives of learning. KTSP also demands the learning process to be more student-centered, meaning that the materials and activity is directed to help students to be more active and independent. The purposes of KTSP are to develop communicative competence in written and spoken to achieve informational literacy level, to understand the importance of English in order to enhance competitiveness in the global society, and to develop students’ understanding on the correlation between language and culture. From the purpose above we can conclude that KTSP is directing material designers to help learners to understand English language merely not as a new input to their knowledge of language but it is more on how the language connects them to the real world and to broaden their knowledge about the variety of cultures the English language has. KTSP also helps the teaching and learning activities of English to be more effective by not only focusing on how to us English in written and spoken but it gets deeper to that the learners will learn the basic construction of English language through its culture and its use in global scope. Teaching vocabulary in school using computer as the assisted exercise media will be based on the objectives of KTSP. The implementation of the design will help the students gain more vocabulary which will help them learn English better. The program is designed in order to help students to have more attractive materials which will help them to motivate themselves in learning vocabulary. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI The pr ocabulary since the materials are the same with the materials they are lear The design uses the supplementary materials to indicate its materials since the materials designed in the study are the additional materials to the students’ main materials which they have learned in class. The basis for developing the supplementary materials is to help the students to have more exposure on their o, the writer designs materials which accomodates ogram is also designed to help students to have more exposure to vocabulary materials in form of exercises. It is also to help students to compete in global society. By having broader knowlegde of vocabulary, students will be easier absorbing new vocabulary in English since they have already had the competence. In this study the writer made use of the School Based Curriculum or Kurikulum Tingkat Satuan Pendidikan KTSP for the first grade students of senior high school to acquint the design with the objectives stated in KTSP. The purpose is to help the students to achieve the same result and to ease them in learning the v ning in class.

4. Supplementary Materials

English vocabulary and to do s their vocabulary materials which they have learnt in class. Desingning supplementary materials will also make sure that the students will achieve the same objectives with the school. In the study the writer made use of supplementary materials since the materials used in the study are additional materials to the materials that the students have learnt in class. Desigining the supplementary materials will also help the students to learn more on the English vocabulary because the students are plications of computers for ent implies that the use of mpu 1 Computer gives individual attention to learners generally adapts the ear of being ridiculed exercising the same topic they have learnt in class.

5. Computer Assisted Language Learning CALL

“Recently, though, computers have become so widespred in schools and homes and their uses have expanded so dramatically that the majority of language teachers must now begin to think about the im language learning” Warschauer, 1996, p.1. The statem co ters in school is possible, this makes teachers start to give signal to the implemention of computer in their teaching and learning process. Below we will see the advantages of computer in language teaaching and also the role of computer in CALL

a. The Advantages of Computer in Language Teaching

The use of computer in language teaching offers several advanteges as stated by Kenning Kenning, 1983, p.2-3. The advantages are: 2 It guides the learners toward the correct answers and material to his or her performance 3 It offers privacy, which relieves learners from the f for the mistakes by their classmates. 4 Computer is patient and will tirelessly go over the same points for as long as is necessary