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STRATEGIES APPLIED BY ENGLISH TEACHERS TO OVERCOME THE PROBLEMS IN IMPLEMENTING 2013 CURRICULUM AT SMAN 1 LINTAU BUO Lena Sastri
English Language Teaching and Research Vol 2, No 1 (2018): ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING AND RESEARCH
Publisher : English Language Teaching and Research

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SMA N 1 Lintau Buo has applied 2013 curriculum almost 5 years, but English teachers who teach there still face some problems in implementing it. This study aims to investigate English teachers’ problems and their strategies to overcome the problems. This study adopted descriptive qualitative design, and the data were collected through interview of three English teachers at SMAN 1 Lintau Buo. Finding showed that there were some problems faced in implementing 2013 curriculum. They got difficulties in using many types of authentic assessments and the rubrics, the shortage of English duration (2 credit hours) that made students were not ensure to improve their English competences at school, and difference materials between 2013 curriculum and 2006 curriculum (materials for UN especially for twelfth grade). To solve these problems, the teachers had different strategies. They used some of authentic assessments (affective and psychomotor), calculated and managed effective weeks, made lesson plans, prota and prosem properly in order to all materials can be taught to the students, and completed 2013 curriculum materials in first semester and focused on UN materials in second semester.Keywords: implementing 2013 curriculum, problems, strategies
STUDENTS’ ANXIETY AND THEIR LEARNING ACHIEVEMENT : A CORRELATION STUDY Putri Chantika Herman; Lena Sastri; Absharini Kardena; Elsi Amiza
EDU RESEARCH Vol 5 No 3 (2024): EDU RESEARCH
Publisher : IICLS (Indonesian Institute for Corporate Learning and Studies)

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Students in junior high school felt anxiety and were afraid in learning English, so that their grades was quite good. They felt afraid and anxious when they made mistakes in speaking English because they were laughed by their friends. Then, they had no experience an learning English in primary school. The aim of this study is to identify the correlation between students’ anxiety and their Learning Achievement. The design of this research was correlation design. The population of this research were 67 students’ of seventh-grade students at SMP N 6 Padang. This research used cluster random sampling the sample was 31 students. To get the data this research used a questionnaire and test. To measure students’ anxiety using a tool the Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale (FLCAS). The data in this research were analyzed by using the Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient with SPSS 20 programs. The research result showed that the Coefficient of Product Moment was-0,784. It meant, there was a negative correlation between students‘ anxiety and their learning achievement ∝ was 0.05, so sig 0.00 less than 0.05. Negative science shows a significant relationship in reverse if the anxiety value is high then the value is low and if the value is high then the anxiety is low. It could be concluded that Ho was rejected and Ha was accepted. So the implication is that if the anxiety is high then the student's score is low and vice versa if the anxiety is low then the score is high.