CONVERSATIONAL ENGLISH FOR TOURIST ESCORTS

Abstract

This study develops and validate a practical English handbook for tourist escorts. Thirty (30) tourist escorts in the province of Laguna and (10) English Professors of selected HEIs were the respondents of the study. The researcher answers the following questions: (1) What is the mean level of scores given by the local tourist guides in the developed practical English handbook with respect to: usability, consistency, adaptability, appropriateness, aesthetic value? (2) What is the mean level of scores given by the English experts with respect to: usability, consistency, adaptability, appropriateness, aesthetic value? (3) is there a significant difference in the rating among the tour guides and English experts based on the following criteria: usability, consistency, adaptability, appropriateness, aesthetic value? Weighted the mean and standard deviation were used to determine the assessment of the expert evaluators. As observed in the treatment done in this study, the following were evident: The over-all mean of 4.20 revealed that the Practical English Handbook was extremely acceptable in terms of appropriateness given by local tourist guides. And the over-all means of 3.85, 3.99, 4.05 and 3.98 respectively indicated very acceptable in terms of usability, consistency, adaptability and aesthetic value. The over-all mean of 4.40, 4.24, 4.30 and 4.40 respectively revealed that the Practical English handbook was extremely acceptable in terms of usability, consistency, adaptability, appropriateness and aesthetic value as rated by the English experts. The computed t-values of 2.46, 2.16 and 2.26 had p-values of 0.024, 0.042 and 0.035 were all less than the alpha 0.05 level of significance with indicated that there was significant difference on the ratings’ given by the local tourist guides English experts on the usability, consistency and aesthetic value respectively. While the t-values of 0.289 and 0.605 which were greater that alpha 0.05 level of significance were verbally interpreted as not significant based on the ratings’ given by the local tourist and English experts on the adaptability and appropriateness.