Data Analysis RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
ICT. In addition, as the school‟s purpose Al- Azhar BSD has purpose to produce graduates who are able utilize Information
and Communication Technology ICT.
Moreover, the purpose in English seems to be a big deal as well in Indonesia context in which English viewed not as a
second language yet as a foreign language. One of the central issues in all the debates about English has been its purpose in
schools: in short, what it is for. On the one hand, there are people who believe that its primary purpose is functional: to teach the
basic skills of reading and writing, including handwriting, spelling, grammar and punctuation, and to prepare young people
for their adult roles as citizens and employees.
The reviewer hardly to find kind of testing proposed in this curriculum, and another shortage found in this curriculum is
about the materials. It means, there is no short example of the materials that will be taught to the students. And there is no both
gradation and selection of the material in order to make the teacher has it easier to choose the best fit material to be taught.
Here the writer tried to conduct curriculum analysis since it goes in line with the idea proposed by Lawton mentioning that
“the claim of teaching to be a profession lies in the ability and opportunity for teachers to exercise their judgement over the
critical tasks involved in their role, namely curriculum and teaching
.”
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Regarding to the statement above, the writer tried to figure out the curriculum content used in Al-Azhar BSD by
which then he tried to bring the concept into practice. Here, the utilization of Edmodo micro-blogging for teaching writing. The
notion about the use of Edmodo micro-blogging to be used as a
writing tool which is hoped able to meet the student‟s need and encourage students to write.
In this context, although the utilization of ICT has been proposed in the school vision and mission but it fails into practice
since its integration was merely occurred in teaching learning activity. Teachers seem to fail in taking manifestation of the ICT
utilization due to the inadequacy of skills for using ICT and
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David Hopkins, A Teacher’s Guide to Classroom Research New
York: McGraw-Hill Education Open University Press, 2008, p. 39.