Teachers’ Perception of Project Based Learning on English Textbook as the Implementation of Curriculum 2013 in Indonesia

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to define teachers’ perception about application of Project Based learning which is stated on English Textbook for Junior High School Class VII as The Implementation of Curriculum 2013. Moreover, design of this research is descriptive research. Basically, this research is the continued of the previous research about Development of English Textbook class VII Problem Based Learning as the Implementation of curriculum 2013. However, in this research, researcher investigated some English teachers who teach class VII at Piloting Schools in Padang which applied Curriculum 2013. Population of this research is six schools as piloting of curriculum 2013 in Padang. They are SMPN 1 Padang, SMPN 8 Padang, SMPN 12 Padang, SMPN 31 Padang, SMPN Nasional Padang and SMPN SIMA Padang. Then as samples, there were twelve teachers as respondents. Researcher used questioners and interview in getting the data. The data showed that the 90 % teachers perceive English textbook used in Curriculum 2013 still far from project based learning. It is seen from the content of the book. So it can be concluded that the textbook need to be developed from content aspect