IJSRP, Volume 5, Issue 1, January 2015 Edition [ISSN 2250-3153]
Nely Arif
Abstract:
The Indonesian government has recently started implementing the 2013 Curriculum. There are some aspects are revised in that curriculum. One of them is removing English as compulsory subject in the primary School level. It has been a contradiction among many parties such as teachers, parents’ group and education observers. Therefore this paper tries to present Teachers’ Opinion about removing English as compulsory subject in the primary school level. The population in this research is all teachers that were taught by the researcher during PLPG (Training for Certified Teachers) on August 2014 at rayon LPTK university of Jambi. The data were collected through questionnaire. Random cluster sampling was used here. From the data analysis, it can be concluded that majority of teachers who become samples do not agree if the English subject is removed from elementary school level.