ENGLISH TEACHING ACTIVITIES IN ACCORDANCE WITH COMPETENCY BASED CURRICULUM IN THE FIRST GRADE OF SMP N 1 TAWANGSARI SUKOHARJO

Evy Yunianti. 2008. English Teaching Activities in Accordance with Competency Based Curriculum In the First Grade of SMP N 1 Tawangsari Sukoharjo. English Diploma Program, Faculty of Letters and Fine Arts, UNS. The Final Project is about the description of the teaching-learning method used by the English teacher in the first grade of SMP N 1 Tawangsari Sukoharjo and the activities done in accordance with competency based curriculum. The Local Government has had the autonomy to organize the education curriculum independently. Therefore, every school in a region should arrange their own education curriculum and competence. SMP N 1 Tawangsari Sukoharjo has been practicing this new regulation by holding an English teaching-learning process with Competency based Curriculum in the newest form KTSP (Educational Unit Level Curriculum). The writer did a Job Training to compose the final project in SMP N 1 Tawangsari. The purpose is to report the method used and the English activities done in SMP N 1 Tawangsari. There are many methods which can be used by the teacher. The teacher in this school has been already using the newest method, Competency Based Curriculum. This final project describes the new method used and how the teacher practiced it. The data was taken from the observation and interview in the school of SMP N 1 Tawangsari. Firstly, she observed the class and the activity there. Then, at the second day, the writer was positioned as the teacher for class VII D, she must come there twice a week to teach the student. She continued the topic in that semester and taught the student by practicing the theory given in Diploma Program. The Job Training held from 6th of February until 15th of March 2007. During the Job Training, the writer did also some interview with the English teacher there and some librarians, and also the head of SMP N 1 Tawangsari. She also got the data from the information of an administration staff. The Discussion of the data leads to the teaching-learning process held in SMP N 1 Tawangsari is starting to use the newest competency based curriculum based on UU No. 20 tahun 2003 about National Education System and Government Rule that instruct in National standardizing. Then, in teaching a second language to the students, the teacher should understand some points about the student’s characteristic generally; a teacher in this competence is hoped as a controller and a facilitator who let the students explore themselves maximally Some problems related to the students were the lack of more modern facilities and English daily community. Therefore, the solutions may be the school should obtain more modern facilities such as some latest CDs, video, and native speaker. Then it will be better when the teacher build an English atmosphere in and around the class by writing or drawing everything related with English. Many trials can develop the student ability

DICTION IN A DRAMA ENTITLED ‘ROMEO AND JULIET’ BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

A literary work is a sign symbol and communication symbol which points the reader to understand that a literary work represents an abstraction of various mechanismsbetween others which is possible to be happened. The major element of literary works is language, either oral or written. Without language, there is no literary work. Languageis a medium in literary works. In literary work, language represents the author or playwrights’ ideas, feelings, and social structure of society. On that account, there is avery wide freedom in using language to interpret the author’s or the playwright’s ideasto the readers or the audience. Language style is a major element in writing literarywork to present the aspect of aesthetics. Diction has a tightly relationship with literaryworks. In diction, the author or the playwright chooses an appropriate word and havethe strength of meaning and contains of aesthetics aspect. Drama is one of literaryworks which contains of diction written by the author or the playwright to describe thecondition of the society or environment, or to represent his or her feelings, opinionsand ideas. In drama, the reader or the audience can enjoy and give opinion, assesmentand also appreciation to the author’s or the playwright’s diction as one of aesthetic literary works that we also can see from Willam Shakespeare’s dramas

ASSESSING THE EFFICIENCY OF LOCAL ACTION GROUPS AND AUCTIONS FOR DESIGNING AND IMPLEMENTING AGRI-ENVIRONMENTAL MEASURES IN THE EU - RESULTS FROM AN EXPERT SURVEY

In this article the authors focus on two important innovations for agri-environmental measures in the new council regulation: The implementation of local action groups and a call for tenders. The article describes how relevant actors assess the innovations. The results are based on 276 interviews, carried out in 2006 in nine EU Member States. Generally, actors assume that measures designed in local action groups are not necessarily more economically efficient than current measures, but they do have potential to result in a higher ecological effectiveness and in a greater acceptance. However, the opinion on auctions is comparatively critical