Stating Competency Standards CS, Basic Competences BC, and

60

a. Stating Competency Standards CS, Basic Competences BC, and

Topics The goals and general purposes of the formal school in Indonesia have already been stated by the government in the Graduate’s Competency Standards GCS of School-based Curriculum SBC in terms of Competency Standards and Basic Competencies. Therefore, the goals and general purposes of the designed materials were adopted from the CS and BC of the school curriculum. In SMA Pangudi Luhur Yogyakarta, vocabulary teaching is integrated with reading and writing. Hence, the designed materials are mainly intended to support reading and writing activities. Therefore, the CS and BC used in this study are the CS and BC of reading and writing. The CS and BC of the designed materials are mentioned in the following table. Competency Standards CS Basic Competences BC Reading 1. Be able to understand meanings in short functional texts and simple essays in the forms of daily-life context reports, narratives, and exposition to access information. 1.1. 1.2. Be able to respond to meanings in short written formal and informal functional daily-life texts i.e. banner, poster, brochure, etc. accurately, fluently, and acceptably. Be able to respond to meanings and rhetorical steps in essays of daily-life report, narrative, and analytical exposition accurately, fluently, and acceptably in order to access information. Writing 2. Be able to express meanings in essays in the forms of daily-life report, narrative, and analytical exposition. 2.1. 2.2. Be able to express meanings in short written formal and informal functional texts i.e. banner, poster, brochure, etc. accurately, fluently, and acceptably. Be able to express meanings and rhetorical steps in essays of report, narrative, and analytical exposition accurately, fluently, and acceptably. Table 4.1: The Competency Standards and Basic Competences PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI 61 In GCS, vocabulary teaching is not mentioned. Therefore, vocabulary cannot be taught separately from English skills, in this case, reading and writing. Seeing the content of the CS and BC, students are expected to respond to and express meanings in written texts. In order to do the actions, students need a lot of vocabulary and this is the role of vocabulary in reading and writing. After stating the general purposes, the writer then mentioned the learning topics. The learning topics are taken from the stated general purposes or BCs. Those topics are banners, posters, brochures, reports, narratives, and analytical expositions. The detailed topics can be seen in the following table. No. Learning Topics Required Competences 1. Banners reading, writing 2. Posters reading, writing 3. Brochures reading, writing 4. Reports reading, writing 5. Narratives reading, writing 6. Analytical expositions reading, writing Table 4.2: The Learning Topics of the Designed Materials

b. Specifying the Learning Indicators