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INTRODUCTION
A. Background of The Problem
Every changes of education policy aim at improving the
outcomes of English language teaching. Thus, Indonesian
government tries to change the curriculum for many times. In
2004, the Ministry of National Education has decided to bring
in a new curriculum in all subject areas, including English. The
curriculum is known as Competence Based Curriculum or 2004
Curriculum which recommends a new approach, which is the
Genre-Based Approach.
In 2006, the curriculum changed into School-based
curriculum. Based on National Education Standard Boar, 2006,
it explains that School-based Curriculum is an operational
curriculum that is arranged and done by each school/
educational institution and the curriculum is still implement
until now.
The curriculum, recommends a new approach, that is
Genre -Based Approach. According to Lin (2006) in Genrebased Approach, teaching and learning focuses on the
understanding and production of selected genres of texts.
Teaching and learning around text genres has become
including
primary,
secondary,
tertiary,
Teacher
activate
situation in the text
Frequency
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Cultural context
Shared experience
Control of relevant
vocabulary
Grammatical
patterns
MoT
Cultural context
Social function
Schematic structure
Linguistic features
Usingspoken
language to focus
on written text
JcoT
Schematic structure
Linguistic feature
Knowledge of field
IcoT
Schematic structure
Linguistic Features
Knowledge of field
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CLASS
VIII1
VIII2
VIII3
Mean
score
Table 1
Students English Score in Four Skill
at Class VIII SMPN 9 Solok Selatan
SCORES
Source: English
Listenin Readi Speaki Writing
Teacher of Junior
g
ng
ng
High School 9
54
58
62
53
Solok Selatan.
59
56
63
50
58
64
58
50
57
59
61
51
in
writing
competence
is
uncertain?
Is
this
giving
explanation
about
basic
paragraph
last
aspect
that
determines
teaching
writing
students,
namely
recount,
narrative,
procedure,
10
of
language
teaching
by
using
Genre-based
11
order
make
more
understand
and
to
avoid
12
process
of
selecting,
arranging
and
is