School-Based Curriculum Theoretical Description

13 In this study, the writer conducted the steps of Kemp’s design in composing the design of the listening materials for the first semester of the tenth grade students of SMA Dominikus Wonosari. Figure 2.1: Kemp’s Diagram 1977: 9

2. School-Based Curriculum

Kurikulum Tingkat Satuan Pendidikan School-Based Curriculum is the latest curriculum used in Indonesia’s education system. In this kind of curriculum, every school has their own right to develop the syllabus, which means the schools themselves should be able to develop the components of the curriculum itself. Goa ls, Topics, a n d Ge n e r a l Pu r pose s Le a r n e r Ch a r a ct e r - ist ics Su bj e ct Con t e n t Te a ch in g Le a r n in g Act iv it ie s, Re sou r ce s Pr e - Asse ssm e n t Le a r n in g Obj e ct iv e s Su ppor t Se r v ice s Ev a lu a t ion PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI 14 According to Muslich 2007: 10, School-Based Curriculum SBC, as the completing of the former curriculum used 2004 Curriculum, is an operational curriculum, which is arranged and implemented by each school. The arrangement of the SBC, which is trusted to each school, is almost the same as those principles of Competence-Based Curriculum CBC or Kurikulum Berbasis Kompetensi KBK implementation. The principles are implemented for each school in planning, conducting, running, and assess the learning, referred to their condition and objective. School-Based Curriculum is developed based on these principles Muslich, 2007: 11: • It is focused on the potentials, developments, needs, and students’ importance and environment. • It is various and integrated. • It is concerned on knowledge, technology, and art. • It is relevant to the life. • It is total and continual. • It is an unstopped learning. • It is balance in national and local interest. The School-Based Curriculum of the English Subject for Senior High School expects the students to be able to achieve certain literacy levels related to the English language learning. The literacy levels included performative, functional, informational, and epistemic. In performative level, people are able to read, write, listen, and speak with symbol used. In functional level, people are PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI 15 able to use language to fulfill their needs such as reading newspaper, manuals, or procedures. In informational level, people are able to access knowledge or information with language ability, meanwhile in epistemic level; people are able to express knowledge in the target language Wells, 1987 as cited in Diknas 2006. However, the aim of the English lesson in the School-Based Curriculum is to help the students obtain the informational level, which aim is to access knowledge with their ability in English language Diknas: 2006. In short, after learning English language in the classroom, the students are expected to be able to communicate using English language.

3. Communicative Language Teaching