Maya Masita, Muhammad Basri, Andi Qashas Rahman
Designing a curriculum for English Young Learners (EYL) is a must. What EYL will learn in class must be relevant to them. Designing a curriculum should be based on their needs. The curriculum contained what EYL need to learn, their previous knowledge, content in books, assessments, and abilities according to their backgrounds. In designing a curriculum, it also needs to keep up to date. Integrating foreign curriculum with the national curriculum makes the school able to keeps up to date. Designing a curriculum through an intercultural approach is necessary in order to make the curriculum based on the needs and the conditions of EYL. This study describes the design of a curriculum using intercultural approach for English Young Learners. This study used a qualitative descriptive by giving an interview and observation. The findings of this study were analyzed using reflective analysis. Based on the analysis, it can be concluded that designing curriculum through an intercultural approach makes EYL able to achieve learning the goals, help teachers to teach, and keeps schools up to date without leaving national rules. Designing a curriculum using intercultural approach for EYL will be useful for the teaching and learning process because it is covering all aspects of the curriculum components. © 2020 Asian E F L Journal Press. All rights reserved.
Universitas Muhammadiyah Bulukumba, Indonesia; Universitas Negeri Makassar, Indonesia
