| This study aims at exploring Senior High School (SHS) English teachers’ perception toward the implementation of Scientific Approach (SA) and Genre Based Approach (GBA) in the English lesson. According to Pickens (2005), perception is closely related to attitudes. To measure the attitude, the theory of planned behavior (Fishbein & Ajzan, 1975) was applied. The present study examines the following four aspects of perception: attitude, subjective norms, perceived behavioral control, and behavioral intention. To gather the data, a questionnaire adopted from Knabe (2009); was distributed to 30 SHS English teachers from five different areas in Jakarta.The obtained data were analyzed qualitatively and quantitatively. The quantitative analysis was to examine if there was any correlation between any of the following three aspects: attitude, subjective norms, perceived behavioral control, and behavioral intention. Regression analysis was also done to test if the aforementioned three aspects influence the aspect of behavioral intention. The qualitative analysis reveals that teachers generally had mixed feelings about teaching English through SA and GBA. They believed the approaches had good objectives and was well-designed; however, they encountered difficulties when they had to use the approaches, one of which was their lack of mastery of the approaches. Meanwhile, the quantitative analysis show that there is a positive correlation between all the above three aspects of perception and behavioral intention. According to the regression analysis, the factors which influence teachers’ intention in implementing SA are attitude and subjective norms while GBA is only influenced by the attitude. |