After being developed, based on the SBC arrangement mechanism stated by the Education National Standard Institution syllabus should be approved by the
principal after getting the agreement from the school committee and education institution. Then, syllabus should be examined and developed continually by
noticing the learning result evaluation, process evaluation, and instructional plan evaluation.
2. The Role of English for Elementary School Students Based on SBC
In SBC document, English in elementary school has the position as one of the local content subject. English learning is expected to help the students to
recognize themselves, their culture, and other people culture, to help the students to be able to express their ideas and feelings, participate in the society, and to help
the students to use their analytic and imaginative ability. English is an instrument to communicate orally and written.
Communication ability means the ability to understand and or produce spoken text and or written text which is formed into four language skill include listening,
speaking, reading, and writing. Therefore, English as a subject is directed to develop those skills so that the students are able to communicate and write in
English on a certain literacy level. Literacy level contains performative, functional, informative, and epistemic. The literacy level for elementary school is
performative literacy level. The scope of English for elementary school involves oral communication ability on the school context which contains of the aspects of
listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Writing and reading skill are directed to support oral communication learning.
Based on the SBC socialization CD, English learning for elementary school should be active, creative, effective, and joyful joyful learning. Next, the
use of multi method and multi media is recommended. Learning process can be done inside or outside the classroom and use the environment around to support
the learning. Besides, the learning process should involve multi aspect such as logical, practice, and ethics.
Learning English for elementary school has the purposes so that the students have the certain abilities. First is to develop communication competence
orally to accompany the action language accompanying action on the school context. Second purpose is to have the awareness about the meaning and the
importance of English to improve the competitive ability in the global society. Appropriate with the literacy level performative literacy level and the
purpose of learning English for elementary school language accompanying action, the use of TPR Total Physical Response, cooperative learning, games,
songs, and short stories as the learning strategies are well recommended Christina Kristiyani, 2007. The basic consideration of the using of TPR method is that TPR
appropriate with the characteristic of young learner which stated that children will learn better by speaking and acting Musthafa, 2002:7. Why the use of
cooperative learning important is because cooperative learning is appropriate with the characteristic of the learning in elementary school. That is active, creative,
effective and joyful which is focused on the practice and working in a group. The use of songs, games, short stories will create joyful learning.
3. Perception
Since the study is aimed to know teachers’ perception on the implementation of School Based Curriculum, thus the writer presents the
discussion of some definitions of perception according to some experts and factors which can influence someone in having his or her perception.
a. Definitions of Perception
There are some definitions of perception based on experts’ opinion. According to Kreitner and Kinicki 1992: 26, perception is a mental and
cognitive process that enables us to interpret and understand our surroundings. It means that perception may exist as our responses to our surrounding. Leontiev
1981: 31 defines perception as the process in which the existence of the objects and phenomena is reflected in a person’s consciousness. The process happens
with the help of the person’s sensory organs, namely: eyes, ears, tongue, nose, and skin. Leontiev’s statement means that a person may perceive objects,
surroundings, and events or occurrence around him or her consciously by the help of sensory organs.
Haire 1956, cited by Leontiev 1981: 31 states that perception is a process in which the individual recognizes information, fits the information, and
compares the information with the previous one which is stored in the person’s memory. Haire’s statement means that a person, after receiving the stimuli, will
identify the stimuli. He or she then will recall his or her memory whether he or she has already received the same stimuli or not. If he or she has already received
the stimuli before, he or she will recognize the stimuli. The stimuli may be in PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
form of information. The person then matches the information, and compares the information with the previous information. Gibson, Ivancevich, and Donnelly
1973: 216 state that perception is an activity which employs us in everyday of our lives. The perception is a set of factors which influence the motivational state
of people in organization. The definition of perception stated by Gibson et. al means that perception influences a person’s motivation in his or her surroundings.
Another definition about perception comes from Forgus 1996: 1. Forgus defines perception as the process of information extraction. It means that
perception is the process where the information is filtered or selected. Altman, Valenzi, and Hodgetts 1985: 85 add that perception is the way stimuli are
selected and grouped by a person in such a way that the stimuli can be meaningfully interpreted. Furthermore, Altman et. al 1985 state that perception
is how a person views reality. The way a person views the reality depends on how the information that is available organized.
After knowing some definitions of perception, in the following discussion the writer will discuss some factors that affect someone in having perception.
b. The Factors Stimuli Influencing Perception
In organization theory, Gibson et. al 1985:61 provides a perceptual process in the form of diagram and there are six factors influencing someone’s
perceptions.
1 Stereotype
Stereotype is a set of beliefs about the characteristic of people in a particular group that is generalized to all members of the groups Gibson,
Ivancevich, and Donelly, 1985:64. It indicates that the judgment for someone is related to hisher ethnic group membership. For example, most of Javanese
women speak slowly and politely so that a woman who is Javanese will stereotype as the most Javanese woman. While in fact, not all Javanese women speak slowly
and politely. Most of the stereotypes are the wrong perception because it is formed not because of the fact that happens in our environment. It is supported by
Gibson et. al 1985: 65 who says that stereotyping can result in implementing improper programs.
2 Selectivity
The second factor is selectivity. It is impossible for us to catch all the stimuli that exist in our environment. Only certain stimuli are taken and we
process them in our brain. It is caused by our interest of those stimuli. We make a perception based on something that we want to choose. It is supported by Gibson
et. al 1985: 66 who says that people tend to ignore information or cues that might make them feel discomfort. People will take the stimuli that they want but
most of the stimuli that thy take are positive for them. For example, a teacher who has many students in his class will ignore student who is impolite to him. He will
give poor mark for that student. People have various interest so they may select what is important and or what is relevant to fulfill their needs. This is why people
perceive things differently. In SBC, people will give bad perception on it if those people do not select the stimuli SBC because they do not have any interest on it.
