National Curriculum 2013: From Literacy to Scientific Approach

Implementation of the newest National Curriculum 2013 in every public school gives problem to the teacher’s way of thinking especially for language teacher. It is projected to change the language teaching paradigm from literacy approach which gives the students opportunity to use the information from what they read and write to scientific approach that gives students chance to develop their intelligence to higher order thinking in learning language and expected in using it in proper way as life skills equipment in facing the rapid changes of global society system in the near future. Copying this fact about this new curriculum, this article is trying to describe deeper about new feature that brought by curriculum 2013. The aspects start from the concept of curriculum, the assessment process, the learning process namely scientific approach which can be implemented by using some procedures in the classroom and the textbook.