SCIENCE TEACHERS’ CAPABILITY IN WRITING SYLLABUS IN ENGLISH VIEWED FROM KTSP 2006 AT INTERNATIONAL STANDARDIZED SCHOOLS
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The aim of this study is to observe critically on the teachers’ document of teaching-learning equipments and to find out the difficulties in writing syllabus in English, especially for non-English teachers. Therefore, it can improve the teachers’ ability in designing documents especially syllabus. Science teachers (Physics, Chemistry, Biology) should design their teaching-learning syllabus in English otherwise, it will cause serious problems for them. From the study, it was found out that the science teachers had performed good syllabus but they still meet some difficulties in using English for their teaching-learning documents, especially in producing sentences, choosing the vocabularies and the use of grammar. The teachers’ mastery in designing teaching-learning documents in English appropriately is one of the requirements to gain success in carrying on qualified instructional process and accomplishing students’ basic competence, especially in international standardized schools.
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