Students’ Knowledge K3 in Curriculum 2013

Membedah Anatomi Kurikulum 2013 | 218 educates elementary school teachers and teachers to be. Informal permission has been granted by the director of Sumedang Kampus and Ketua Prodi Kelas who is concerning with the academic affair. In addition, a self-access center to some elementary schools is being established since in the meantime I have conducted Program Pengembangan Dosen dan Kapasitas Institusi, a program which allows me to research elementary English teachers and their teachings for the sake of their developments. I have achieved funds from my institution to develop a program relevant with the issue of this research. This has been conducted initiatively in 2011 in my own district Sumedang regarding the Vygotskyan approach through the lesson plans and the teaching of English in elementary school. So the writing of this dissertation will continue thoroughly what I have done thus far. With this permission from relevant sources, I will sit in their classes while they were teaching and the students were presenting their assignments to the class. This was to obtain some knowledge of the English instructors‘ expectation. I had some discussion with the teachers and students as necessary. I analyze the lesson plans along with the observation and interviewed the key informants later on.

3.3 The Role of the Researcher

The role of the researcher is the main instrument of data collection because the researcher will gathers the data, analyzes them inductively, focuses on the meaning of participants, and describes the process expressively and persuasively Creswell, 1998: 14; . In this study, I will play many roles. I will play a role of an observer in the English classes in attempt to understand the genres applied in delivering the lectures, the genres of the reading texts and the tasks. This role will shift to a participant observer when I have to obtain more insight information from the instructors, especially when inquiring about their intention when delivering classroom instructions, giving reading materials or tasks.

3.4 Data Collection Methods

Mixed method and qualitative research needs multiple techniques to collect data from multiple sources Creswell, 1998. In general, the data will be taken from the following techniques. Research Question 1: 1. How teachers understand and perceive the concept of scaffolding? The data will be collected through both questionnaires and interview. The questions asked will be around scaffolding concepts: how far teacher understands the concept, apply and perceive it in curriculum 2013?