English
Language Teacher Education: Rewriting S-1 National
Curriculum
M. Soenardi Djiwandono
As part of
an overall attempt to improve secondary school teacher education, a program has
been launched to review and develop the national curriculum (KURNAS) of English
language teacher education in Indonesia as a means to improve the
quality of teachers of English. The new curriculum is at the same time intended
to be a revision of the 1995 national curriculum supposedly in use now. For the
purpose, a team of three members was appointed by the Secondary School Teacher
Development Project (nationally known as Proyek PGSM),
comprising English teaching professionals from the State University of Malang, Gadjah Mada University, and a senior high school teacher of
English. Following a study of the existing documents related to ELT in
Indonesia, an initial draft was
written and gradually developed following a series of discussions and exchanges
of ideas with teachers and professionals in the field of ELT. By the
3rd year of the appointment of the team, the draft of the new KURNAS
comprising Books I, II, and III, has been completed and ready for a try-out. The
try-out was intended to put into practice the Intensive Course (IC) Program as
one of the most important components of the new KURNAS for the development of
fluency in English as an essential basis for the preparation of competent high
school teachers of English. This article describes the background and the
underlying principles of the curriculum revision, along with the classification
and identification of courses, descriptions of courses, and syllabus
outlines.
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Djiwandono, M. S. (1999).
English language teacher education: Rewriting S-1 national curriculum. TEFLIN
Journal, 10(1), 17-30.
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