Investigating English Teachers’ Understanding of Materials Adaptation in Curriculum 2013

Rizaldy Hanifa

2017

Abstract

The implementation of curriculum 2013 urges teachers to be more productive, creative, and innovative in adapting various kinds of teaching materials. However, the tendency for over-reliance on textbook may cause teachers to have lack of experience and familiarity dealing with materials adaptation. This might lead them to not have the best insight into materials development. Therefore, this study aimed at investigating English teachers’ understanding of their materials adaptation in relation to curriculum 2013. The data obtained through interview with six junior high school teachers were analysed qualitatively. The results indicated that teachers’ understanding of materials adaptation was highly good. The teachers made some adaptations to their teaching materials which consisted of adding more language inputs, deleting and simplifying some difficult materials, modifying the contexts of materials as well as the language tasks, and reordering the contents of textbook. In spite of that, the teachers found it difficult to develop the materials optimally due to the limitation of the time they had. Accordingly, some of their adaptations failed to cater students’ needs. Thus, it is important for the teachers to participate in any materials development training or workshop in order to become better materials developers and able to implement the curriculum well.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Hanifa R. (2017). Investigating English Teachers’ Understanding of Materials Adaptation in Curriculum 2013.In The Tenth Conference on Applied Linguistics and The Second English Language Teaching and Technology Conference in collaboration with The First International Conference on Language, Literature, Culture, and Education - Volume 1: CONAPLIN and ICOLLITE, ISBN 978-989-758-332-2, pages 319-324. DOI: 10.5220/0007166703190324

in Bibtex Style

@conference{conaplin and icollite17,
author={Rizaldy Hanifa},
title={Investigating English Teachers’ Understanding of Materials Adaptation in Curriculum 2013},
booktitle={The Tenth Conference on Applied Linguistics and The Second English Language Teaching and Technology Conference in collaboration with The First International Conference on Language, Literature, Culture, and Education - Volume 1: CONAPLIN and ICOLLITE,},
year={2017},
pages={319-324},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0007166703190324},
isbn={978-989-758-332-2},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - The Tenth Conference on Applied Linguistics and The Second English Language Teaching and Technology Conference in collaboration with The First International Conference on Language, Literature, Culture, and Education - Volume 1: CONAPLIN and ICOLLITE,
TI - Investigating English Teachers’ Understanding of Materials Adaptation in Curriculum 2013
SN - 978-989-758-332-2
AU - Hanifa R.
PY - 2017
SP - 319
EP - 324
DO - 10.5220/0007166703190324