Abstract
This study aimed at figuring out the access of Indonesian students to English and figuring out the difference of scanning skill possessed by bilingual students and monolingual students. The subject of this study was 31 2nd semester students from Denpasar Tourism Academy, Bali. The data was collected through a questionnaire and a provided test. The result of the questionnaire shows that students have more access to English through films, listening to English songs, computer games and their mobile phone when they are chatting. From the questionnaire is also found that 42% of the students were monolingual -they use Bahasa only at school and at home- and 58% of the students were bilingual –they use Bahasa and local language-. The result of the test shows that students who are monolingual in that school outperform the bilingual with the average score is 78.00, meanwhile the bilingual students have the average score with score 64.00. It implies that the monolingual students can answer easily the questions given by the teacher than the bilingual students because the use of Bahasa Indonesia only helps them to understand the instruction
Highlights
Globalization has made it possible to have rapid contact of languages
Tourism students should be encouraged by some stimulus to focus more on the content words and process them more deeply since deeper processing and understanding are associated with better reading comprehension and scanning skill, focus on the lexical form does have a positive effect on comprehension
Indonesian tourism learners are more exposed to English through many factors in their environment such as hand phone, peers, English songs, computer games, and film
Summary
Globalization has made it possible to have rapid contact of languages. The use of many languages appears in formal events like school and government, and in informal way as they are spread widely on the use of media and daily social communication (Rosselli, Ardila, Jurado, Salvatierra, 2013). Due to the needs of language usage, Indonesia must consider that English, a broadly used language around the world, as a bridge to enter the international communication. Laba (2017) states that the rapid development of science and technology as well as telecommunication tools in digital era needs the mastery of English He further remarks that having good and effective communication ability in English is a necessity. That’s some reasons making people learn English and make it important to be mastered (Nishanthi, 2018)
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