EFL Teachers’ Implementation on using Their Lesson Plans: A Multiple Case Study at Secondary School Level in Indonesia

A lesson plan is used to guide EFL teachers in conducting the learning process and reaching the achievedtarget. A good lesson plan influences its implementation as well. In Indonesia, lesson plan refers to the syllabus and the syllabus refers to the curriculum. The research aims to describe: 1) the conformity between the lesson plan and the learning process; and 2) the EFL teachers’ perception to their implementation of lesson plan in the classroom. The research is described qualitatively with a multiple case study. There are six participants of the research from different schools. Those are MTs in Sukabumi, SMP in Cianjur, and SMP in Garut. Interview, observation, and documentation were used to collect the data. There are six steps used to analyze the data: 1) preparing and organizing the data; 2) engaging in an initial exploration of the data and it is coded; 3) using the codes to develop a more general picture of the data descriptions; 4) representing the findings through narratives and visuals; 5) making an interpretation of the results meaning; and 6) conducting strategies to validate the accuracy of the findings. Based on the data analysis, about how the EFL teachers implement their lesson plans, it shows that only one EFL teachers wrote the teacher’s activities while other teachers only wrote the students’ activities on the lesson plan. The teacher’s activities are only written on the pre-activities and post-activities