Research Benefits Content analysis on canggih bahasa Inggris workbook for 7th grade of junior high school.

9 Finney in Richards and Renandya 2002: 70 defines curriculum as a specification of the content and the ordering of what is to be taught. It refers to the aspects of planning, implementation and evaluation of an educational program, particularly the why, how and how well together with the what of the teaching- learning process. School-Based Curriculum refers to KTSP Kurikulum Tingkat SatuanPendidikan, the latest Education Department of Indonesia DEPDIKNAS curriculum implementation. It offers the schools and the teachers the autonomy to elaborate and implement their own curriculum. Based on Permendiknas No 22 2006, BSNP develops the content standard which covers the scope of each subject matter and competency levels to achieve the standard of graduate competence in certain educational levels. The content standard includes the basic framework, the curriculum structure, standard competence SK and basic competence KD of each subject matter in each semester of each educational level. Then, KTSP is one of curriculum in Indonesia which is implemented based on Permendiknas No 22 2006. The schools which use the curriculum have freedom to make and arrange the teaching materials that appropriate with the local potential sources in every school. This curriculum some gives advantages for the school; they are make their own syllabus and lesson plan, choose their own materials, set their own rules, etc. They can do that, but it should be based on the the school curriculum and BSNP. 10 `CHAPTER II REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE The content of this chapter is about the explanation of the relevant theories which are related to the research. There are two main parts of this chapter. Those two are theoretical description and theoretical framework. In theoretical description, the theoretical review of this research is provided. The last part is theoretical framework. In the theoretical framework, the researcher explains the relation between the theories and the research question of this research. The researcher uses the theories provided to answer the research problems.

A. Theoretical Description

There are four theories that support this research. They include theories related to school-based curriculum, instructional material, workbook, and studying with the workbook. The theories are stated by experts in language teaching.

1. School-Based Curriculum

In the education scope, there is a familiar word which is “curriculum”. Curriculum is the most essential thing of teaching learning process. A teacher should teach hisher students according to the current curriculum because it has been designed on the basis of students’ needs. According to Feez 2002, “curriculum is a general statement of goals and outcomes, learning arrangement, 11 evaluation and documentation related to the management of program within an education institution”. Therefore, from the definition above the researcher concludes that curriculum is a plan that is developed as guidance in the process of teaching and learning. In order to make the education system better, sometimes the reformation of curriculum is done to improve or to develop the quality of education. Curriculum consists of some education aspects; they are science, knowledge, and experience worth giving to the students to obtain then educational objectives. In the line with the change of time, the technology and the progress of science increase. Therefore, it makes the society’s needs toward the technology and progress of science increase. It also occurs to the change of student’s needs. To meet such a change, the curriculum should be changed because curriculum is a reflection of situation in a certain period of time. Therefore, the most perfect curriculum has been never found. By realizing the need for such a change, the government always tries to improve the curriculum. School-based curriculum is one of examples of curriculum which is arranged by the government in order to improve the curriculum. In this case, School Based Curriculum has been issued by Indonesia National Education Department. Based on Permen No 22 2006, BSNP develops the content standard which covers the scope of each subject matter and competency levels to achieve the standard of graduate competence in certain educational levels. The content standard includes the basic framework, curriculum PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI