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taught to the students in the very beginning level since the purpose of teaching English for children is to give basic knowledge to the students so as to prepare the
students to learn English in the next level. In 2001, the government changed the curriculum and started
implementing a new curriculum. The previous curriculum was the 1994 English curriculum which put emphasis on the development of communicative competence
and cover the four language skills based on the teacher-centered method Depdikbud, 1994: 1-2. However, in the new curriculum, the Competency-Based
Curriculum, the learners are the center of the teaching learning process. This research attempts to investigate the classroom activities in the
implementation of Competency-Based Curriculum to teach English at the sixth grade of SD Negeri Serayu Yogyakarta. The sixth grade students and the English
teachers of SD Negeri Serayu Yogyakarta are taken as the subjects of this research. The researcher takes the sixth grade of SD Negeri Serayu Yogyakarta as
the participants under a consideration that they have had the basic knowledge of English because they have learnt English since they were at the fourth grade and
the fifth grade of Elementary School.
B. Identification of the Problems
The students in formal school in Indonesia used to begin learning English from the first grade of Junior high school. The aim of teaching English
should be to enable our learners to communicate in that language Golebiowska, 1990. However, English has been taught to the fourth grade of Elementary School
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level to start learning English. The purpose of teaching English to children is at least to give the basic knowledge of English to the students to prepare the students
to learn English in the next level. In this research, the researcher analyzed the implementation of
Competency-Based Curriculum to teach English at the sixth grade of SD Negeri Serayu Yogyakarta. The researcher also presented the students’ and teachers’
perceptions on the implementation of Competency-Based Curriculum of English at the sixth grade of SD Negeri Serayu Yogyakarta.
C. Limitation of the Problems
This thesis discusses the classroom activities in class and also the teacher’s and the students’ perceptions on the implementation of Competency-
Based Curriculum at the sixth grade of SD Negeri Serayu Yogyakarta. This thesis also offers explanation about implementing Competency-Based Curriculum to
teach English to children.
D. Problem Formulation
Based on the problem limitation, the problems are formulated as follows:
1. How is the English Competency-Based Curriculum implemented at the sixth grade of SD Negeri Serayu Yogyakarta?
2. What are the students’ perceptions on the implementation of Competency- Based Curriculum of English at the sixth grade of SD Negeri Serayu
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3. What are the teacher’s perceptions on the implementation of Competency- Based Curriculum of English at the sixth grade of SD Negeri Serayu
Yogyakarta?
E. Objectives of the Study
Related to the questions mentioned in the problem formulation, there are two objectives presented in this thesis. The first objective is to describe the
implementation of Competency-Based Curriculum of English at the sixth grade of SD Negeri Serayu Yogyakarta. The second objective is to find out the perceptions
of students and teachers on the implementation of Competency-Based Curriculum to teach English to young learners. This research also provides some explanation
whenever the writer finds classroom problems in the implementation of Competency-Based Curriculum to teach English at the six grade of SD Negeri
Serayu Yogyakarta.
F. Benefits of the Study
