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5. School-Based Curriculum 2006 Kurikulum Tingkat Satuan Pendidikan
a. Background
Recently, all schools in Indonesia have applied the School-Based Curriculum 2006. Badan Standar Nasional Pendidikan, as quoted in Muslich 2007: 17, states
that the School-Based Curriculum 2006 is the operational curriculum which is managed and done in each school. The schools are demanded to develop their own
curriculum and make materials. This curriculum is required to help the students to reach the standard of the students’ competencies. Therefore, the materials that will be
used must be adjusted with the school level, regional characteristics, society cultural, and students’ characteristics.
School-Based Curriculum 2006 2006: 307 states that learning language will be considered successful when students also study how to communicate in the
target language. Learning English covers learning to understand as well as producing both spoken and written utterances. It is hoped that learning English can help the
students to know themselves, their own culture as well as other people’s culture, share their opinion, participate in the society, and even develop their imagination and
analytical ability. School-Based Curriculum 2006 elaborates that senior high school students
are highly demanded to gain their knowledge through the learning English process in particular literacy. The literacy covers performative, functional, informational, and
epistemic. In perfomative level, people can read, write, listen, and speak using symbols. In functional level, people can use the language to fulfill everyday life
requirement like reading newspaper, manual or guide. In informational level, people
28 can access knowledge with their language ability, while in epistemic level, people
can share their knowledge in the target language. Learning English in senior high school is focused to achieve informational level because the students are prepared to
continue their study in the university. While, the epistemic level is considered too high to be achieved by senior high school students because English is become a
foreign language in Indonesia.
b. The objectives of School-Based Curriculum 2006
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