TEACHING DESCRIPTIVE TEXTS OF ENGLISH SUBJECT (A Case Study of Pre-Service English Teacher in Implementing Independent Curriculum for Tenth Grade Students Senior High School in 2023/2024 Academic Year)
RAHUL KUSUMA, NIM. 1930104052, Thesis Title: TEACHING DESCRIPTIVE TEXTS OF ENGLISH SUBJECT (A Case Study of Pre-Service English Teacher Implementing Independent Curriculum for Tenth Grade Students Senior High School in 2023/2024 Academic Year) English Education Study Program, Tarbiyah and Teacher Training Faculty, State Islamic University Mahmud Yunus Batusangkar. The problem in this study was that it has not revealed various ways of English pre-service teacher in teaching descriptive text in the implementation of the independent curriculum. The research method used is Case Study. This case study aims to investigate the implementation of an independent curriculum in teaching descriptive text to tenth-grade students at the Pre-Service English Teacher. The informants of this research were five English pre-service teachers majoring in English Teaching Department in the academic year 2023 who were determined by Purposive Sampling technique. In this study, the researcher functions as a key instrument in data collection assisted by supporting instruments in the form of interview guidelines. To test the validity of the data, the researcher conducted time triangulation data by comparing the first and second interviews. Furthermore, to analyze the data, Researcher used the theory of Miles and Huberman (1994), namely by reducing data, displaying data, verifying data and drawing conclusions. The results showed that the English pre-service teachers were implemented independent curriculum in teaching descriptive text although not doing well. English Pre-service teachers have carried out teaching according to the independent curriculum as possible ability. However, there are still many shortcomings in implementing an independent curriculum such in Genre Based Intruction and not implementing differentiated learning as well.