the problems of the Implementation of the
curriculum related to:
First, a curriculum that did not synergize with
syllabus and teaching materials. This was revealed
in an in-depth interview to the local content of
Rejang Language teacher who mentioned:
"For the curriculum, it is not appropriate. For
example, in the curriculum it explains about telling
about everyday events. Whereas none in this
book. So, we make it ourselves. "(EE )
Second, teaching materials that were difficult to
be understood by the students. Existing teaching
materials did not facilitate the needs of different
students. Students with a cultural background in
Rejang and non Rejang experienced different
difficulties in understanding teaching materials. As
stated by the following respondent:
"students are difficult to understand the material"
(EE )
"There are some children who understand easily
because they are from Rejang tribe, but some
children find it difficult to understand because of the
different cultures." (SY)
From the explanation above, it is very clear that
the focuss is the most basic local content of Rejang
language related to curriculum planning, syllabus to
teaching materials. This certainly has an impact to
the success of the teaching. While the teaching of
Rejang language as a local content has not been well
integrated, it requires policies from the local
government to prepare the equipment.
Research on the development of local content in
Indonesia has been carried out since almost every
region in Indonesia has its regional
language. Among them: research the local content of
the Makassar language , in research that developed
Makassar language teaching material based on
character formation. The teaching material was
developed based on the Bugis-Makassar regional
language curriculum in 2006 which emphasized
aspects of planting moral values based on local
wisdom (Robiah Sitti, 2016). Furthermore, the
Javanese script based on learning system is
multimedia. This study aims to increase the interest
of elementary school students in Javanese language
which is considered difficult in terms of learning the
characters. For this reason, a Javanese script learning
system is developed for elementary students based
on multimedia (Hakim, A.O.Al Aziz Purnama,
2012). While also Rejang language research as a
local content has been carried out research for junior
high school students. In this study, designing Rejang
language curriculum based on a communicative
approach. The results of the study obtained the
Rejang language curriculum design based on the
Communicative approach with 8 competency
standards and 24 basic competencies with each
grade level numbering eight basic competencies
(Botifar, 2013).
The development of learning local language as
local content cannot escape the needs of teachers
and students. Efforts to meet these needs are carried
out description of the current situation, such as how
the curriculum, syllabus and teaching materials are
available at the moment. The result of the
description analysis activities obtain initial
information as to what needs to be designed for the
development of further learning. For
example, research on Madura language as a local
content based on empirical studies obtained data: 1)
the need for renewal of the old curriculum into a
new curriculum, i.g curriculum 2013, 2) the need for
renewal of textbooks, procurement of dictionaries,
grammar in the education field in madrasas, 3) the
renewal and standardization of Madura language
spelling called 2011 spelling results from
the convergence of the East Java Provincial
Language Hall, 4) the need to optimize the
procurement of Madura language teachers at all
levels in the school. (Effendy, 2016).
From this empirical results, Rejang language can
be developed in accordance with needs that are
problem, expectations and teachers and students’
needs as stakeholders from the world of
education. Based on this, this article will map the
conditions of the syllabus and teaching materials of
Rejang language used today.
2 RESEARCH METHODS
The research approach used development
stages (Borg & Gall, 2003). The stages began
with reviewing literature, field observations,
documentation studies, and interviews. The step of
this research was limited to the initial step, namely
literature review, empirical studies and document
studies. Empirical study and documents were done
to describe comprehensively the facts of the field
that could support problems that would be discussed
in the syllabus and teaching materials of Rejang
Language. Empirical studies and documents
are intended to explore the conditions of the syllabus
and teaching materials used today. This empirical
data collection used data collection techniques in the
form of interviews with 3 teacher respondents about
teaching materials using indicators developed
by Tomlinson (Tomlinson, 2007) and classroom
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