Designing English for Tourism Syllabus for Vocational School
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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, English syllabus used by general schools is designed as English for General Purposes (EGP). This type of English syllabus 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 (State Vocational High School). The research and development (R&D) uses ADDIE model. The data of this study focused on the needs of vocational students in learning English and the syllabus design relating to the 2013 Curriculum. The data were collected from three categories of participants which were the tourism students, their English teachers, and experts of tourism. Three kinds of instrumentations are used to gather the data which are multiple choices and Likert – scale questionnaires, interviews, and document analysis. Based on the need analysis, the researcher developed a syllabus that 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.
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