A LANGUAGE ASSESSMENT ANALYSIS OF ENGLISH NATIONAL EXAMINATION IN INDONESIA

Authors

  • Arini Sabrina Semarang State University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.30659/e.1.2.177-195

Abstract

By virtue of the importance and the gradual development of national
examination in Indonesia, this article evaluates its implementation,
focusing on English subject through the perspective of language
assessment. The analysis of this qualitative research is placed initially on
the quality of questions of English national examination in the academic
year of 2014-2015 for senior high schools. After the question quality
analysis, there is a subsequent analysis focusing on assessing the outer
aspect in dealing with the English national examination implementation in
Indonesia which is the regulation itself. The results show that some
weaknesses still emerge regarding the quality of both the text the
questions, also the aspects outside those ones like the impacts of the
regulation towards the students and the schools.

Keywords: English, national examination, language assessment

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Published

2016-08-31

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Education