RELEVANSI ANTARA TES AKHIR DAN TUJUAN PENGAJARAN BAHASA INGGRIS DI SMP SE-SURAKARTA

Abstract

This study is aimed at synthesizing the objectives of the teaching of English in the thirdgrade of SMP Surakarta, classifying the final test of English given to the third-grade students of SMP Surakarta, and comparing the objectives of the teaching of English and the final test of English in the third-grade of SMP Surakarta. The type of this study is descriptive qualitative, the object of this study is the relevance between the final tes the objective of teaching English in the third -grade of SMP Surakarta,the data of this study are the specific objective of teaching English taken from the 2004 curriculum of English for SMP/MTS and the final test items of English taken from the 2005/2006 national test for SMP/MTS, and they are collected by the document analysis. Before the data are analyzed, the objectives and tests are classified based on the types of English skills and English elements. The result of analysis is that the final tests of English which are relevant with the objective of teaching English in the third-grade of SMP Surakarta are most of the test items of reading skill and the final tests of English which are not relevant with the objective of teaching English in the third-grade of SMP Surakarta are some of the test items of reading skill and all test items of writing skill. Based on the result of analysis, it can be concluded that the objectives of teaching English that can be achieved are only most of the objectives of reading skill, and the objectives of teaching English that cannot be achieved are all the objectives of teaching listening, speaking, and writing and some of the objectives of teaching reading skill.