Portraying Systemic Functional Linguistics Genre-based Approach in Kurikulum Merdeka in EFL Senior High School

Abstract

Due to the change of the curriculum in Indonesia into Kurikulum Merdeka, the government still recommends the Genre Based Approach (GBA) in teaching English. Nevertheless, the study centering on how this approach was implemented in the latest curriculum is still very few. Hence, this study aims to portray the implementation of SFL-GBA in Kurikulum Merdeka in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) classroom. A qualitative case study research design was employed. This study was conducted in a public senior high school in West Java, involving one purposive English teacher as the research participant. In collecting the data, classroom observation and interviews were used and analyzed using inductive analysis. The results indicate that almost all stages of SFL-GBA stages were implemented by the teacher. Specifically, at the final stage (Independent Construction of the Text), the teacher missed the important activity; that is, giving corrective feedback. Therefore, it is expected to teachers in having more effective classroom management to employ the complete stages of SFL-GBA approach.