A Study of Bilingual Education and Communicative Competence at Junior Secondary School

Abstract

The concern of the paper is the bilingual education conducted at SMP Negeri I Bojonegoro.
The study attempts to investigate and to find out the research problems dealing with the
influence of bilingual education on students’ speaking English competence, communicative
environment motivating students to have awareness to speak in English, bilingual
methodology in the classrooms, and the impediments encountered by the teachers and
students in employing bilingual learning. The research design of the study is descriptive
qualitative using triangulation technique in collecting the required data. The population is
seventh and eighth graders students of SMPN 1 Bojonegoro in the academic year of
2013/2014. Meanwhile, the theoretical samples of the study are taken based on the use of
bilingual across subject contents (sciences and mathematics) at year VII A and VIII A. The
result of the study shows that the program raises the students’ and teachers’ awareness in
bilingual education as it is used in specific contents subject. It consequently enhances the
motivation for foreign language learning.