On the notes of lesson preparation, Ur 1996; 350
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stated that most experienced teachers actually prepare lesson twice; they have ready in advance a
general syllabus of what activities and text. They want to get through during a certain period of the course and then they plan the actual sequence of components
for a specific lesson and prepare supplementary materials a day or two days before.
H. The Evaluation
Gronlund, 1985 in Wilmar Tinambunan, 1988:2 suggests that evaluation is the systematic process of collecting, analyzing and interpreting information to
determine the extent to which pupils are achieving instructional objectives
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. Evaluation must be conducted in the teaching-learning activities to know how
well the students’ understanding about the materials which has given by the English teachers, as a general evaluation is the process of systematic information
collecting through the numbers, verbal description, analysis, and information interpretation to give a score to the students’ work result. In additions Muslich add
the concept about evaluation class evaluation as follows: “Proses pengumpulan dan penggunaan informasi oleh guru untuk
pemberian keputusan terhadap hasil belajar siswa berdasarkan tahapan kemajuan belajarnya sehingga didapatkan potretprofil kemampuan siswa
dengan kompetensi yang ditetapkan dalam kurikulum”
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. Based on Muslich’s idea above that evaluation is used to get information
about the students’ learning improvement during following the teaching-learning activities whether they able to increase their learning skills or not, it is also must
be in line with the latest syllabus or curriculum that determined the content standard of basic and standard competencies.
Furthermore, Evaluation has two main categories and they are; a formative test and summative test. The evaluation process can be applied with
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Penny Ur. A Course in Language Teaching Practice and Theory. New York: Combridge University Press, 1996, p. 350.
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Wilmar Tinambunan, Evaluation of Students Achievement, Depdikbud, Ditjend, 1988, p. 2.
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some kinds of ways, namely; a portfolio evaluation, b product evaluation, c project evaluation, d performance evaluation, e paper and pen evaluation, and
f self assessment evaluation. The above evaluations are applied in the latest syllabus syllabus 2006
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Masnur Muslich, KTSP Kurikulum Tingkat Satuan Pendidikan Dasar Pemahaman dan Pengembangan
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CHAPTER III RESEARCH DESIGN
