THE IMPLEMENTATION OF SCIENTIFIC APPROACH OF CURRICULUM 2013 IN TEACHING ENGLISH AT FIRST GRADE OF SMKN 1 BUKITTINGGI IN ACADEMIC YEAR 2015/2016
<p align="center"> <strong>ABSTRACT</strong></p> <p> <strong>Elwinda Amdira, 2311.048, The Implementation of Scientific Approach of Curriculum 2013 in Teaching English at First Grade of SMKN 1 Bukittinggi, </strong><strong>a Thesis, </strong><strong>English Education Department, State Islamic Institute ( IAIN ) Bukittinggi, 2015 M</strong></p> <p> This research aimed to reveal the Curriculum 2013 implemented by English teachers in English SMKN 1 Bukittinggi along teaching and learning process. The curriculum 2013 emphasizes on scientific approach where the students as center of learning are required to be more active, creative, and innovative, so there are an enhancement and balance between competence of attitude, knowledge, and skills. Besides, teachers as key driver of curriculum 2013 also have to be more creatif and innovative. Furtheremore, the teachers have to really understand what scientific approach and how to implement it in learning and teaching process. In fact, the teachers did not apply curriculum 2013 as whole. Thus, the research was done at first grade of SMKN 1 Bukittinggi to know how the teachers implement the scientific approach of curriculum 2013 in English teaching and learning.</p> <p> This research was a descriptive qualitative one. The key informants in this research were three English teachers who taught at the first grade. Besides, some of students that were choosen by using snowball sampling technique became the supporting informant in collecting the data. The data were collected through observation and interview. The data were analyzed by using Flow model of Miles and Huberman in Sugiyono.</p> <p> From the data analysis, the researcher found that the three teachers have implemented the scientific approach of curriculum 2013 on their teaching process but it was not omptimal yet as those contained in the scientific approach. In the opening procedure, the teachers have applied almost this procedure, they are: greeting, apersepsi, introduction of material, and initial motivation. Then, core procedure, it consists of five activities. First, observing, the teacher guided students to do observing through activities : showing, hearing, listening, and reading. Second, questionning, they brought students to give questions of the material or additional information. Third, experimenting, it has four activities, they are: guiding the students to explore many information through conducting an experiment, reading the other sources, observing objects, events, or activities, and doing interview with sources. Actually, the three teacher just applied first activity of experimenting, it caused allocation of time, support facilities and books of others sources were not adequate. Fourth, association, the three teachers also skipped this step. It was also influenced by the limited time and students’ input. Fifth, communicating, the teacher got the result and conclusions based on the analysis of oral, written, or other media. The last procedure is closing, the three teachers applied all of activities in this procedure, they are: summarizing, final motivation, enrichment, and greeting.</p> <div> <p> <strong>Key words</strong>: Scientific Approach, Curriculum 2013</p> </div> <p> </p>