Madrasah Aliyah Islamic Secondary School

2. The ability to understand short functional text and monologue in Genres of Descriptive, Procedure, Recount, Narrative and Report, news item, analytical exposition, hortatory exposition, spoof, explanation, discussion, review, public speaking. It involved the use of grammatical, discourse, and strategy competences. 3. Supporting Competence that is Linguistic Competence grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation, spelling, Socio-cultural competence using idiom, speech act acceptably in variety of communication context Strategy competence handling communication problems in some ways to maintain the conversation and Discourse Forming Competence Discourse marker. 76 The same degree objectives for language teaching may be the same from school to school. However, they are actually different in educational ideology, extracurricular activities, study focus, etc. These variations within the schools have an important effect on students learning process and of course student’s achievement. Moreover, even though they are from the same grade secondary level, but they are characteristically different. As stated in the Act of the Republic of Indonesia on National Education System, general education focus on provision of broad based academic skills, needed for learners to pursue further education at high level of schooling. Vocational schooling is secondary educational programme for preparing learners for a specific job. Religious education is programme which prepares learners to perform their role, requiring the acquisition of religious knowledge, andor to become religious scholar. 77 MA is a school which Islamic lesson is the main subject learned beside general lessons. It means that religious subject are also determine the student competence which he she is proper to next grade or even determine the final test. There are at least five religious subjects which must be taught in Madrasah based on the curriculum. There are: 76 Standar Isi, untuk Satuan Dasar dan Menengah: Standar kompetensi dan Kompetensi Dasar SMAMA, Jakarta: Badan Standar Pendidikan Nasional BNSP, 2006, pp.125-126. 77 Act of the Republic of Indonesia on National Education System, op.cit., p. 44 1. Al-Quran Hadis Al-Quaran and Hadis 2. Aqidah Akhlak Knowledge about behavior in Islam 3. Fiqih Islamic Jurisprudence 4. Sejarah dan Kebudayaan Islam Islamic History 5. Bahasa Arab Arabic Language