2.2.3.3 The English E-Book for XII Grade of Senior High School
There are many choises of English electronic books that can be used by the twelfth grade of senior high school students. Among them, I choose an English e-
book entitled Developing English Competencies 3 published by Pusat Perbukuan Depdiknas to be analyzed.
Some textbooks claimed in their cover that they are adjusted to the School- Based Curriculum and also cover the four language skills, includes speaking skill.
It makes me interested in analysing whether they are really compatible with the School-Based Curriculum or not.
2.2.4 Curriculum
Every teachinglearning program needs a curriculum. Curriculum is considered to be the main source and the main guide for the teachers in the teachinglearning
activities. It contains instructional goals, teaching method and teaching material that have to be followed by the teachers. The following are some relevant issues
about the curriculum.
2.2.4.1 Definition of Curriculum
Curriculum is the basis for doing teaching-learning activities. A teacher should know the curriculum before he teaches his students, as curriculum has been made
on the basis of students ‟ need. Considering the importance of the curriculum, I
will discuss further about the curriculum. According to Oxford Advanced Learner‟s Dictionary of Current English,
“curriculum is the subjects included in a course of study or taught at a particular school, college, etc.
” Hornby 1995:287.
From the definition above, it may mean that a study in schools, colleges, universities, and some other institutions should be relevant to the curriculum.
As background information for second and foreign language course designers, a brief review of a few of the outstanding contribution to the general
curriculum planning literature is warranted. Skager 1977: 23 states in his book:
“The term of “curriculum” is used at various levels of inclusiveness in educational discourse. Sometimes it refers only to a set of guidelines as
to the content of instruction, in other cases to curriculum plans which may be quite detailed in the sense of incorporating specifications as to
instructional objectives, content, and methods. But written plans and guidelines, no matter how detailed, represent a relatively restricted
concept of the curriculum.
” Furthermore, Pratt 1980: 4 reveals a curriculum as
“an organized set of formal educational andor training intentions.
” He also explains the implications of the above definition need to be made explicit. They are:
1 A curriculum is intention, or plans.
2 A curriculum is not activities but plans, or a blueprint, for activities.
3 A curriculum contains many other kinds of intentions, such as what learning
students are to develop, the means of evaluation to be used to assess learning, the criteria according to which students will be admitted to the qualities
required to teacher. 4
A curriculum involves formal intentions, which intentions are deliberately chosen to promote learning; it does not include random, unplanned, or non-
learning activities.
5 As an organized set of intention, a curriculum articulates the relationships
among its different elements objectives, content, evaluation, etc., integrating them into a unified and coherent whole.
6 Both education and training are referred to in the definition to avoid the
misunderstanding that occurs of one is omitted. From the illustration above, I conclude that a curriculum is a subject
included in a course of study which is taught at a particular school, college, Hornby, 1995: 287, a set of formal educational andor training intentions Pratt
1980: 4, and also a kind of guidance that is developed to make teaching-learning activities progress well Skager, 1977: 23.
2.2.4.2 School-Based Curriculum KTSP
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