each school has different condition and quality. Therefore, the government improved and completed the curriculum. The 2006 curriculum is now called
Kurikulum Tingkat Satuan Pendidikan KTSP .
b. 2006 Curriculum as the Development of 2004 Curriculum
Kurikulum Tingkat Satuan Pendidikan KTSP or a School Based
Curriculum is actually not a new curriculum. This is a part and a development of the 2004 Curriculum. Similar to the 2004 curriculum, government provides
similar content standard competence standard and base competency for each of all education levels. However, in the KTSP, the indicators are different one school
to another since they have different conditions. Each school has an authority to formulate the indicators based on the condition of its students. Each school will
have same competency as another school, but it will have different indicators from other schools. In other words, KTSP is developed by school and school committee
with reference to competence standard and content standard as well as curriculum guideline made by the Body of Education National Standard Badan Standar
Nasional Pendidikan BSNP , 2006, p.4.
The KTSP has an objective that expects students to achieve it. The objective of English subject in Junior High School is that students have the
following abilities: 1 Developing communicative competence, both oral and written competence to
achieve literary level of functional. 2 Having awareness on the essence and the importance of English language to
increase nation’s competitive ability in global society. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
3 Developing students’ understanding on the relationship between language and culture.
c. Self-Development Activity
The KTSP for Junior High School contains regular subject, local subject, and self-development activity. The self-development activity is a new activity for
our education. As stated in chapter I, a self-development activity is an integrated part of curriculum structure, which is aimed to provide students with an
opportunity to develop and express themselves based on their needs, talent, and interest according to the school condition Badan Standar Nasional Pendidikan,
2006, p.8. Each school provides some activities, including English, according to students’ need and interests in which the students have to join one of the activities
provided by their school. Based on the previous definition, the writer wants to develop the self-
development activity into an activity which provides students much opportunity in speaking and a bit of writing since the two skills reveal the students’ ability in
expressing themselves. However, this new activity seems not very clear for some teachers. The ambiguity appears because the self-development seems not to have
a big difference from the regular subject and extracurricular activities. Yet, the self-development activity is different from both regular and extracurricular
activities.
1 The Difference between Self-Development Activity and Regular Subject
