6 Emotion
Emotion can influence someone in forming perception. Gibson et. al 1985:68 supports this through his statement that strong emotion often distorts
perceptions. A girl considers her boyfriend is the perfect man. He gives her love, loyalty, and all his life. But one day his boyfriend has an affair with another girl.
She gets angry with her boyfriend. Due to that tragedy, she considers her boyfriend is not a good man for her anymore. Finally, they break up. Teachers
who do not have enough background information about SBC may find any difficulty in using SBC. This difficulty may cause emotional feeling. They may
get annoyed and angry since that they feel fail to implement this curriculum. This emotional feeling tend to lead the teachers to have bad perception toward SBC.
Besides those six factors, Altman, Valenzi, and Hodgetts 1985: 89 add that familiarity with the situation and a person’s past experience also affect what
he or she perceived. Teacher’s expectation of the good curriculum will create a frame in their mind about the characteristic of the good curriculum. Since that
School Based Curriculum is new, the teachers do not have any experience with this. But, their past experience using some different curriculum may give them the
background knowledge about the characteristic of the good curriculum.
B. Theoritical Framework
In this study, the researcher attempts to investigate the process of SBC development for English teaching in elementary school and to investigate the
elementary school English teachers’ perception in Kotagede sub district Yogyakarta on the use of SBC.
In order to answer the first problem, the writer applies the definition of SBC, SBC components, and the principle of SBC development stated by
Education National Standard Institution 2006. Based on Indonesian regulation number 20 2003 UU 202003 about national education system and Indonesian
government regulation number 19 2005 PP 192005 about education national standard, SBC is developed under the supervision of education institution. SBC
development should be based on the content standard and graduation standard, SBC development guideline made by BSNP, and the consideration from the
school committee. Using those references, then the researcher investigates how the teachers developed the curriculum. The researcher wants to know whether the
teachers develop the curriculum based on those references. Those will help the researcher to know the process of SBC development by the teacher. Since syllabus
is the realization of the curriculum, the researcher also applies the principles of syllabus development based on SBC. It is used to help the researcher to
investigate whether the teachers have followed the rule of syllabus development or whether the syllabus developed by the teachers has already fulfilled the criteria
of syllabus based on SBC. The researcher also employs the role of English learning as the local content subject. It will help the researcher to investigate
whether the teachers develop the syllabus that is appropriate with the purpose of English learning for elementary school and whether the syllabus contains the
scope of English for elementary school which involves oral communication ability PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
on the school context which contains of the aspects of listening, speaking, reading, and writing where writing and reading skill are directed to support oral
communication learning. The researcher also wants to investigate the methods used by the teachers to facilitate the learning activities. The researcher wants to
know whether the teachers have applied the methods that are appropriate with the characteristic of English learning for young learner.
In answering the second problem, the writer employs the definition of perception and the factors that affect person in perceiving the stimuli influence
perception according to Gibson et.al 1985:61 and Altman et.al 1985: 89. The researcher needs to know the definitions of perception since it helps the writer to
know how perception is formed. Factors influencing perception are also needed by the writer because those factors help the writer to find out the factors that can
cause teacher to have certain perception. There are six factors, stereotype, selectivity, self-concept, situation, need, and emotion influencing someone in
having perception toward something. The researcher then investigates whether those factors influence the teachers in having perception and what the teachers’
perceptions are caused by those factors. In order to find out the answer of this research question, the writer conducted the interview and distributed
questionnaires. The result of the questionnaires will be coded, analyzed, interpreted, and written in paragraphs.
CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
In this chapter, the researcher will present the method used to answer the three questions stated in Chapter 1.
A. Research Method
Research done by the researcher was a survey research. Survey research is a technique in research in which data are gathered by asking questions to a group
of individuals Ary, Jacobs, and Razavieh, 2002: 374. According to Tull and Albaum 1973:2, a survey research is a term that is susceptible to a variety of
interpretations. Mostly, it connotes a project to get information from a sample of people by the use of questionnaire. Since it used questionnaire to get the data, the
researcher defined this research as a survey research. The method used in this research was qualitative research. Therefore, the data would be presented on the
form of description not in the term of numbers. In other word, the researcher would present the data in the form of verbal statement not in number.
B. Research Participants
The participants of this study were the English teachers who were teaching English in public elementary school. This study limited the participant only in the
area of public elementary schools in Kotagede sub district Yogyakarta. It was done to focus the study that involves the English teachers in that area. It was also
because the researcher is an English teacher who teaches one public elementary school in that area. Based on that situation, it would be easier to conduct the
research since the researcher was facing almost the same situation with other teachers in that area such as the condition of the student and the environment, and
also the same curriculum standard and the government policy. There are fifteen public elementary schools. Since the researcher also teaches in one of the school
in Kotagede sub district, the researcher does not involve herself and her school on this research. So, the research is conducted only in fourteen schools.
The participants were twelve teachers came from fourteen schools. It was based on the situation that there were two English teachers who taught in two
schools. For those schools have more than one English teacher, the researcher chose one teacher randomly. It was done because English teacher who teach in the
same school usually have almost the same experience.
C. Research Instruments
In gathering the data, the researcher used two instruments. Those are questionnaire and interview sheet.
1. Questionnaire
To answer the first and the second problem, the researcher used questionnaire. According to Ary, Jacobs, and Razavieh 1990: 418, a
questionnaire was an instrument of the study to gather information through the respondents’ written responses to a list of questions.
