THE IMPLEMENTATION OF COMPETENCY-BASED CURRICULUM OF ENGLISH AT JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL

The change of curriculum in this country happens almost in every ten years by
considering that the result of outcomes is unsatisfactory. This changing usual1y effects to
the Indonesian schooling particularly to administration sets and the process of teaching
and learning of the avaiJable curriculum.
This research is intended to know how the teacher implements the CompetencyBased
curriculum (Cl3C) of Engiish and why does the teacher do the way she does. The
implementation coverage is classified into two main parts i.e.: administration of teaching
emphasizing on sytlabus design, scenario of learning and the teaching and learning
English proce!:'S at Junior High Schooi. This research is conducted through obecrvational
case study by observing the teacher teaches Engl1sh in a classroom process, and the
teacher's administration stuff. lntervi~w is also carried out in order to find out why does
the teacher implement the way she does in CBC. Data analysis is conducted in two stages
i.e: ongoing analysis during data gathering in the observation and data analysis after
colleting the data. The results of the observation show that the impfem~ntation of CBC in
teaching English has covered the competencies to he achieved - communicative
competence, and th~ occurrence of active interaction ben.veen teacher and studenls,
students and students. This means that the implementation is going on in accordance with
the CBC cvcnthough administratively it is not well done yet. This is caused by the
unsufficient training and workshop for the teacher, moreover Mwyawarah Guru Mala
Pelajaran (lv/GAfP) as the teacher association in which he/she can discuss some problems
she faces is not working during this year in Kabupaten Indragiri Hulu.