English Curriculum of a Modern Pesantren in Indonesia: Alumni’s voices

Abstract

One of many changes that modern pesantrens makes within their curriculum in order to adjust it to the globalization era is to take English as a part of their curriculum. Most modern pesantrens develop their own English curriculum and place their own purposes. Even though English seems to be a new thing in the curriculum content of the modern pesantren, many alumni of modern pesantrens manage to continue their study taking English major. The alumni compete with other students from general schools to enroll at this major. It means that they start the college life with English knowledge they achieved from the pesantren. This study was conducted to investigate the alumni's perception on the English curriculum of the modern pesantren. A case study was employed with a semi structured interview of five purposive participants in order to gather data by using an adapted interview schedule from the Kirkpatrick's Four Level of Training Evaluation. It was found that there were strengths and weaknesses that the English curriculum has based on the alumni's perception. It is recommended to take the alumni's perception into consideration in curriculum development process.