EFL Teacher’s Perception on Implementation of Curriculum 2013 (A Study at Junior High Schools in South Aceh)

The objectives of the study were to find out the implementation, strength, weaknesses, and expectation from the EFL teachers about the implementation of Curriculum 2013 in South Aceh. The researcher employed descriptive qualitative method by using interview as a technique for collecting the data. The subjects were six teachers of SMPN 1 Bakongan Timur and MTsN 2 South Aceh. The obtained data were analyzed in four major phases namely, data reduction, data display, conclusion and verification. The results of the study showed that most participants still did not fully understand how the good implementation of Curriculum 2013 because there was no comprehensive training. In addition, the Curriculum 2013 has several strength that can be obtained from the result of the teacher’s experience namely student activeness, teacher creativity. However, the teachers also found several problems or weaknesses such as lack of training, structure and infrastructure, time, unpreparedness, and lack of understanding in teaching using the Curriculum 2013 which was due to lack of facilities, and their expectation is the provision of training to each school so that teachers can understand and apply Curriculum 2013 properly.