DESIGNING ENGLISH TOURISM SYLLABUS FOR SMKN 3 PANDEGLANG

Abstract

The purposes of this research are to identify the needs of English tourism students in vocational schools and to propose a design of English syllabus that is expected to meet tourism industry demands of English tourism students in vocational school, English syllabus used by general schools is designed as English for General Purposes (EGP). This type of English syllabus absolutely does not cover the vocational students’ needs because English syllabus for vocational secondary schools is supposed to be English for Specific Purposes (ESP). particularly for the tourism department students of SMKN 3 Pandeglang. The research and development (R&D) using Addies model. The data of this study focused on the needs of vocational students’ in learning English at school and the syllabus design relating to the 2013 Curriculum. The data were collected from three categories of participants which were the tourism Student , their English teachers, and Experts of tourism. Three kinds of instrumentations are used to gather the data which are multiple choices and Likert – scale questionnaire, interviews, and document analysis.  Based on the need analysis, the researcher developed a syllabus which could accommodate students’ needs and expectations of an ESP class. As the result obtained from the data analysis that the focus on the syllabus would be speaking and listening followed by writing and reading respectively. The syllabus was designed based on the real condition in the tourism industry.