The Urgency of Integrating English Learning Process with ICT in Junior High School 2013 Curriculum

Abstract

Curriculum is the important part of education that support the teachers to deliver subject well. In Indonesian curriculum, English is one of subject which includes in foundation type. English takes crucial material because it is international language which has many uses in this day and age. In the other hand, teaching English is not easy.  It can be seen from many problems faced by our English education. However, teachers should need assistance to support effective teaching and learning process. In this global era, ICT has become integral to the teaching-learning interaction. The purpose of this paper is to examine how important the application of ICT for optimizing the realization of the current English curriculum. The researchers choose a qualitative research with literature type and a descriptive analytical approach. The data collection method used is the study of documents or literature. The result of this research is to know the urgency of ICT in English learning. That is, whether ICT has a large enough influence to optimize English learning as conceptualized by the curriculum or, on the contrary, the integration between ICT and English learning is basically not really necessary.