USING CONSTRUCTIVISM METHOD TO TEACH HORTATORY EXPOSITION FOR GRADE 8 JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS

The types of learners are really different. They have their own style in understanding some materials. The teacher will face any obstacle in giving some materials for the grade 8 students of junior high school because there are some students who are really fast in catching some materials but we couldn’t forget that there are some students who are really slowly in getting some materials. The wise method to be applied in this case is constructivist because it will involve whole students for having collaborating in lesson activity. Moreover that the material will be taught is about hortatory exposition where students can share and argue their opinion relating with some recent issues. That is why there are so many beneficial in conducting this project. In the end of process, we will know that they will increase their comprehension and it will be shown an improvement in their attitude toward what hortatory exposition is

THE SUITABILITY OF ENGLISH SCHOOL EXAMINATION AND NATIONAL EXAMINATION THROUGH THE SYLLABUS FORMAT AND LINGUISTIC FEATURE IN KTSP: The Case at the Ninth Grade of SMPN 2 Temanggung in the 2012/ 2013 Academic Year

This study aims to investigate and identify the English School Examination and English National Examination through the syllabus format and linguistic feature. Qualitative descriptive is used in conducting this study. The data is collected using interview and documentation. The first discussion is on the data which are compared to the syllabus format of KTSP. The results show that both of the examinations do not include listening and speaking competence. The examinations are only on reading and writing competence. There are 42 questions in reading and 8 questions in writing. Both of the tests are matched with syllabus format of KTSP but the material distributions for both the examinations are different. There are 9 materials from grade 9, 19 from grade 8 and 24 from grade 7 in English School but 4 materials from grade 9, 20 from grade 8 and 26 from grade 7 in English National Examination. The second discussion is in linguistics features of the genre texts. They are Descriptive, Narrative, Recount, Procedure, and Report. The linguistic features used in those genre texts for English School Examination are more complex than those in English National Examination. By looking at the first and the second discussion, the students get more difficulties in doing the English School Examination than English National Examination