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ABSTRACT Yeyen Surya Anggara. 2313.108. An Analysis of Assessment Technique Used by English Teacher in the Seventh Graders at SMP N 03 Pangkalan. There were some problems about assessment techniques used by the English teacher found in the field. These problems were English teachers were rare assessing students’ ability and the English teachers implemented some kinds of assessment in English language learning, but there was no documentation about the teacher’s various assessments in assessing students’ language learning. Concerning to those problems, the aim of this research was to analyze the assessment techniques used by English teacher in teaching English and to know how the English teacher used assessment techniques to assess students’ achievement at SMPN 03 Pangkalan. This research design was descriptive qualitative research. This research was conducted at the seventh graders of SMPN 03 Pangkalan. There were three classes of the seventh graders, namely 7.1, 7.2 and 7.3. The researcher took 21 students as the sample of this research which consisted of 7 students in each class by using snowball sampling technique. Then, the researcher also took the English teacher who taught at the seventh graders as the sample of this research by using purposive sampling technique. The instrumentation of this research were observation, interview and documentation. The observation was conducted by using video recording and observation sheet and interview was conducted for the students and the English teacher. After that, the documentations were the students’ worksheet, exercise’s book, teacher’s mark book, pictures and etc. After analyzed the data, it was found that the English teacher used various assessment techniques in teaching and learning English to the seventh graders. Then, the teacher followed and addapted some procedures when used the assessment to the students. These procedures related to the theories from the experts. The researcher concluded that the assessment techniques used by English teacher in teaching English at SMPN 03 Pangkalan were focus on integrated skills, emphasis on process, alternative or authentic assessment, formal assessment, informal assessment, instructional assessment, integrated performance assessment, classroom-based assessment, standard-based assessment, teacher’s assessment, quantitative assessment, qualitative assessment, formative assessment, summative assessment, norm-referenced assessment, criterion-referenced assessment, selected-response assessment, oral interview assessment, story or text retelling assessment, writing samples assessment, teacher observations assessment, and domain referenced assessment. Keywords: Assessment, Assessment Techniques