This study aims to describe what authentic assessments are used by teachers when done in class and what difficulties encountered by English teachers in implementing authentic assessment.
The design of this research was qualitative method with descriptive approach. The Subject in this research were the English Teacher at SMK Bina Banua Banjarmasin. The object of this research was kinds of authentic assessments used by teachers and difficulties in implementing authentic assessments.In data collection, the researcher used interviews, observations and documents. Then, all of the data that have been collected were analyzed in descriptive analysis based on Miles and Huberman.
The results of the research stated that the English teacher at SMK Bina Banua Banjarmasin had conducted authentic assessments in accordance with the 2013 curriculum of how teachers designed authentic assessments of the three types of assessments that needed to be assessed were appropriate. Thus, there are obstacles in implemented authentic assessments included some students have a lack of vocabulary this is a problem for teachers and also teachers did not have enough time to make an overall assessment.