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

Abstract

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.