Abstract
English as international language becomes the bridge between the guests and the host in tourism activities. As the consequence, Indonesia as the country that popular with its tourism potential should prepare its human resource to support the tourism activity for its betterment. One of them is preparing them with English Macro-skill. English macro-skills consist of 4 skills: Reading, Listening, Writing, and Speaking. This research is aiming at analyzing the needs of English Macro-skills for the Tourism Students of Higher Education. Empirical data in this research were collected through questionnaire. The questionnaire was spread trough 100 tourism students of Ambarrukmo Tourism Institute Yogyakarta whose experience in doing internship period. The result found that one skill is above important than the others, some found that all of them are important, or they should be taught integrated. As the findings show, based on the students’ internship experience and the students’ perspective, those 4 English macro-skills are important but they have different frequency of use in the work place. Reading is the most frequently use since they often deal with short functional text, such as announcements and notice. Then it was followed by listening, writing, and speaking.
Highlights
Background of the StudyNowadays tourism becomes a big business in the world involving millions of people across countries, nations, and cultures
Since English macro-skill become the first concern of the researcher, this research is aiming in analyzing the needs of English macro-skills for the Tourism Students of Higher Education
1.2 Formulation of the Problem Based on the background of the study, the formulation of this study is “What are the English Macro-skills needed for Tourism Students of Higher Education?”
Summary
Nowadays tourism becomes a big business in the world involving millions of people across countries, nations, and cultures. Since English macro-skill become the first concern of the researcher, this research is aiming in analyzing the needs of English macro-skills for the Tourism Students of Higher Education. 1.2 Formulation of the Problem Based on the background of the study, the formulation of this study is “What are the English Macro-skills needed for Tourism Students of Higher Education?”. 1.3 Objective of the Study Based on the formulation of the problem, this study is aiming at analyzing the needs of English Macro-skills for the Tourism Students of Higher Education. In line with the previous idea Sadiku (Sadiku, 2015)said that “the integration of listening and speaking with reading and writing will make learners good listeners, speakers, readers and writers so as to be able to communicate effectively The mastery of these skills is a gradual process.
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