ANALYSIS OF TEACHER BARRIERS IN IMPLEMENTING MERDEKA CURRICULUM IN TEACHING ENGLISH AT UPT SMPN 1 SABBANG SELATAN

This thesis discusses Teachers Barriers in Implementing Merdeka Curriculum in teaching English at UPT SMPN 1 Sabbang Selatan, north Luwu Regency. This research aims to know the Teacher‟s barriers in implementing Merdeka Curriculum in teaching English. This research used qualitative descriptive method. The informant of the research was three English teachers who taught seventh and eight classes at UPT SMPN 1 Sabbang Selatan, The collecting of the data used observation, data display, and drawing conclusions. The methodological triangulation used the validity of the data. The results of the research were: 1) the implementation Merdeka Curriculum in learning English by carrying out the learning process in one meeting in each class and English teachers. There are three activities: Planning, implementing and evaluating activities. 2) The barriers faced by English teacher are divided into two categories: Barriers implementations Merdeka curriculum and the three top barriers teachers face: environment context barriers, skill barriers and knowledge barriers. Barriers in implementing Merdeka curriculum includes: still many students to be passive, teachers didn‟t understand well Merdeka curriculum and lack of time management, limited references or contents learning. The three top barriers including: 1. Environmental context barriers: In term of administrative and ineffective classroom situations, 2. Skill barriers: The lack of teachers understanding in Merdeka Curriculum and 3. Knowledge Barriers : The lack of variety learning method.

Keywords: English Teachers Barriers, Implementing Merdeka Curriculum, Teaching English,Upt Smpn 1 Sabbang Selatan.