Name : Aris Nur Azhar Class : 3B NIM : 2109100076 Curriculum changing pose a problems for ELT in Indonesia It is a fact

that curriculum plays an important role in education. It is a part by which educator may determine the needs of a group of learners; to develop aims or objectives for a program to address those needs; to determine an appropriate syllabus, course structure, teaching methods, and materials; and to carry out an evaluation of the language program that results from these processes (Richards, 2001: 2). A firm and established curriculum is needed to have a solid and sustainable teaching practice. Any change toward curriculum, surely will affect the practice of teaching. Regard to curriculum developed in Indonesia thus it can be stated that the curriculum has been changed regularly. Yet the change seems, for many parties, tend to external factor of teaching rather than improvement of teaching system itself. Curriculum in Indonesia has changed due to the development of language teaching, Indonesian government changing, and science and technology as well as the information development. First, development of language teaching. When the linguists view is still influenced by structuralism then all teaching activities were directed based on the structuralisms principles. The changes in language teaching methods throughout history have reflected recognition of changes in the kind of proficiency learners need, such as a move toward oral proficiency rather than reading comprehension as the goal of the language study; they have also reflected changes in theories of the nature of language and language learning (Richards and Rodgers, 2001: 3). This approach has been a long-lasted model for many teachers in Indonesia. It creates a deep belief toward our teachers that a good language teaching must be a structural based one. The condition contrasts to development of curriculum design directed by government. Though the newest curriculum has been oriented toward constructivism, our

teachers still apply what they knows about the curriculum i.e. language teaching and learning program based on structuralism principles. So, there is an expression among the teachers that curriculum may change but the way of teaching is still the same. For example through the teaching learning process, many English subject teachers still teach English sentence structure as the main focus of teaching rather than develop their students competency through various learning activities. They drill their student solely without any other technique equipped in their teaching process. Second, changing of government. To note the curriculums problem concerns English Language Teaching as Foreign Language in Indonesia cannot be separated from the government affairs policy. It is true that no one method or approach has been applied is perfect, yet they have their own strength and weaknesses. But this fact is not fixed with the sustainable curriculum. The government attempts as the policy maker is not accompanied with another attempt to cover those some failures through the language teaching program. As for the example is the government policy to erase English language teaching in primary schools as a reason for the students to increase their skills of Bahasa Indonesia before studying foreign language. It is shown that the policy do not attempt to make positive progress to ELT section rather it was a declined progress through the student ability to learn foreign language from early years. Susanto (2012) said that Bahasa Indonesia and English language can be taught together, it is shown by another expression well known among the teachers that a curriculum has been changed because of changing in education of ministry. It imply that the policy about erasing ELT on primary school are not necessary. For some people it seems as a curriculum development is a project which is directed by whom and what is the orientation of the curriculum designer is. Third, development of science, technology and information. The global world has obliged people all around the world, including Indonesia, to communicate with the others in

another country so that there is a need to reset and review the subjects curriculum in Indonesia. Concerning the necessity to prepare a resist human resource through the global era so that education, including foreign language, must be able to feed adequately otherwise the schools output cannot participate in various academic activities, social, economic and so on which basically is the realization of modern life style. This ability to participate actively in life is formulized as competencies.