Tourism English Research Articles

PELATIHAN BAHASA INGGRIS BAGI STAF DINAS PARIWISATA KABUPATEN TABANAN

English is an international language which is important in the tourism sector. English is used not only as a means of communication but also as a means of improving the quality of tourism services. Tourists satisfaction can be increased, one of which is by increasing the language skills of the human resources involved in the sector. If the quality of human resources involved in the tourism sector is successfully improved, the level of tourist satisfaction can also be increased. Given the importance of English for the tourism sector, Udayana Service Program (Program Udayana Mengabdi) in the form of English training for Government Tourism Office of Tabanan Regency staff was carried out in order to improve the quality of the human resources, especially in English skills. The training material provided is in the form of English for Tourism which is tailored to the English needs of the trainees. This English training is a form of community service carried out by LP3M Udayana University as an effort to support the program of the Government Tourism Office of Tabanan Regency.

LABOUR MARKET TRENDS TEACHING IN TOURISM INDUSTRY IN THE CONTEXT OF EUROINTEGRATION PROCESSES

The paper covers the problems of teaching a course of English for Specific Purposes for students majoring in tourism in higher educational establishments (HEIs) in Ukraine. Communicative competence is a part of a professional competence of specialists in the field of tourism. In Ukraine successful tourism industry development and the increasing flow of international tourism substantiates the stakeholders’ demand for improving tourism industry employees’ knowledge and skills of English for Specific Purposes, namely their communicative competence in tourism English. Consequently, tourism ESP teaching methodologies and materials in HEIs in Ukraine need further improvement in order to correspond to the educational and qualification requirements and the stakeholders’ demand. The obtained results contribute to the improvement of needs analysis of learning tourism English and tourism ESP course development in HEIs. Needs analysis is covered in terms of its importance and content as the first step to successful ESP course development. Communicative competence in tourism English is considered according to its three components: the linguistic (the knowledge of and the ability to use lexical elements, grammatical resources, perceive and produce the language in particular contexts orally, in writing and reading), the discourse (actual usage of English in the specific conditions in which communication takes place) and the intercultural (deal with specific professional situations in a diverse social and cultural context). Integration of the development of “soft skills” into ESP lessons has been substantiated. Having analyzed the concept of communicative competence in tourism English, course development peculiarities have been considered.

Towards Better Evaluation on Course Examination of Tourism English Major for Higher Vocational Education in China

Towards Better Evaluation on Course Examination of Tourism English Major for Higher Vocational Education in China

Enhancing Students’ Green Ethic-Based Problem Solving Skills in English for Tourism Subject Course

This study aims to examine the development of students' core competencies in learning English for Tourism at Tourism Department Politeknik Negeri Bali, where the main product is a green ethical-based measurement instrument for Core Competencies Practices of Problem Solving Skills. Two types of instruments have been created and designed and then used to assess the level of Development in the teaching and learning process for students and lecturers. The results of the Students' Report trial show that overall the instrument is suitable for widespread use. Confirmatory factor analysis results also show the validity of the sub constructs for each main construct. The results of the level of development of Core Competencies show that the minimum development of students' Core Competencies is above 4.2. This means that the development of student Core Competencies has been achieved. For this reason, the Core Competencies development model must maintain to be developed, tested and finally implemented.

The Effectiveness of Google Classroom Media in Teaching English for Tourism at a Tourism and Business Institute

ABSTRACTThe present study examined the effectiveness of Google Classroom media in teaching English for tourism students at a private Tourism and Business Institute in Bali during mandatory online learning in 2020. The study was qualitative research, implementing the QAIT model for evaluating the effectiveness of Google Classroom in teaching English, involving four lecturers and 42 students. The data were collected through observations of the teaching-learning process in two classes and interviews with the lecturers. The researchers were the primary research instrument, supported by interview guides and an observation checklist. In general, the use of Google Classroom in these English for Tourism classes was only sufficiently effective, with only one lecturer performing well, two lecturers performing sufficiently, and one lecturer performing insufficiently. Obstacles identified among the students were lousy internet connection, lack of device, low motivation, and lack of readiness in using the online learning platform. In conclusion, the implementation of Google Classroom in the observed English Classroom was proven to be only sufficient. This conclusion implies the need for more training for teachers in using Google Classroom to improve the quality, appropriateness, incentive, and time-effectiveness of the teaching and learning process, especially in online learning. ABSTRAKPenelitian ini mengamati efektivitas media Google Classroom dalam pengajaran bahasa Inggris untuk mahasiswa pariwisata di Institut Pariwisata dan Bisnis swasta di Bali selama pembelajaran online wajib tahun 2020. Penelitian ini adalah penelitian kualitatif, mengimplementasikan model QAIT untuk mengevaluasi efektivitas Google Classroom di pengajaran bahasa Inggris, yang melibatkan empat dosen dan 42 mahasiswa. Pengumpulan data dilakukan melalui observasi proses belajar mengajar di kedua kelas dan wawancara dengan dosen. Peneliti bertindak sebagai instrumen penelitian utama, didukung oleh pedoman wawancara dan daftar periksa observasi. Secara umum penggunaan Google Classroom pada kelas Bahasa Inggris untuk Pariwisata ini baru cukup efektif, dengan hanya satu dosen yang berprestasi baik, dua dosen berprestasi cukup, dan satu dosen dirasa kurang memadai. Kendala yang ditemukan pada siswa adalah koneksi internet yang buruk, kurangnya perangkat, motivasi yang rendah, dan kurangnya kesiapan dalam menggunakan platform pembelajaran online. Kesimpulannya, penerapan Google Classroom di Kelas Bahasa Inggris yang diamati terbukti hanya cukup. Kesimpulan ini menyiratkan perlunya lebih banyak pelatihan bagi guru dalam menggunakan Google Classroom untuk meningkatkan kualitas, kesesuaian, insentif, dan efektivitas waktu proses belajar mengajar, terutama dalam pembelajaran online.

IMPROVING ENGLISH FOR TOURISM IN INDONESIA: KNOWING THE BADUY CULTURE

English for tourism is to fulfil students’ need to learn English for specific purposes. Baduy people are people who live in disconnection in the inside of South Banten. The Baduy public are notable as individuals who can oversee woods and their current circumstance well. This study aims to find out the Baduy culture and climate and how they use it intelligently and admirably. The fundamental strategy used is a review technique with several PRA procedures.The examination was directed in Kanekes Village, Leuwidamar District, Lebak Regency. Banten Province. The information gathered, both essential information and auxiliary information, were then examined by subjective spellbinding investigation. The space of ​​Baduy is 5,101.8 hectares, with a populace of around 5,000 individuals spread north of 10 towns. The whole populace makes money as dry rice ranchers (huma) with a moving development framework controlled by custom. In dealing with their current circumstance, the Baduy people group holds fast to standard guidelines, the pith of which is severe spatial game plans for ensured regions and developed regions.

The Students’ Perception towards English for Tourism and Hospitality in Terms of Task English Teaching Materials at Tourism Polytechnic of Makassar

English is the language of the present age and it is also a global language. A recent estimation suggests that while around 375 million people speak English as their first language, another billion use it as a second language, or learning (Barančicová and Zerzová 2015). The role of teaching materials plays a significant part in the development of language. This study aimed to describe the students’ perception towards English for Tourism and Hospitality in terms of task English teaching materials. This research applied a quantitative-qualitative approach and descriptive method. The results revealed that students’ perception was in very good category. It concluded that the role of academics and lecturers in conducting task on learning materials is carried out based on the objective of vocational curriculum and the achievement of student competence has been progressing according to the mechanism. It is suggested that in developing and establishing teaching materials, developer, teachers, stakeholder should consider the target perception, and the difficulties faced by the lecturers may be manipulated by preparing a lot before teaching.

What is ‘English for Tourism’?: An Updated ‘Grounded Review’ of the Literature

What is ‘English for Tourism’?: An Updated ‘Grounded Review’ of the Literature

PЕCULIARITIES OF ADVERTISEMENT STRUCTURING IN MODERN ENGLISH TOURISM DISCOURSE

Nowadays tourism industry is one of the areas that facilitate the economic and cultural growth of the country. Tourism does not only open borders, acquaint with the cultural heritage, and expand “intellectual capacity”, it is a sphere where various suggestive means – subconsciously and consciously – are widely used. A tourist destination is popularized through advertising, so advertising texts in tourism advertising discourse – an institutional type of discourse focused on specifying within numerous tourism destinations and on reciprocal communication with recipients – are one of the key means of promoting tourism products. The end goal of our paper is to pinpoint the basic structure of the modern English tourism advertisement and determine the correlation of its verbal and nonverbal components, the subject of the research is verbal and nonverbal means of reproducing tourism advertisement content. The goal can be achieved through the tasks aimed at analyzing the correlation of verbal and nonverbal and at the presentation of the basic framework of the modern English advertisement in tourism advertising discourse. The results of the research proved that the peculiarity of advertising texts in modern English tourism advertising discourse is in the combination of informational, linguistic, socio-cultural, gender, and psychological components that altogether create a positively-marked tourism destination image in the recipient’s consciousness. The information in the advertisements is fragmented to avoid overwhelming recipients with “known” facts. The tourism destination advertisements have a basic structure of a visual component (arch-fragment) as a means of attracting the recipient’s attention and a verbal component: title (middle fragment), as a means of interest, and text (terminal-fragment), as the main means of suggestion. Key words: modern English tourism advertising discourse, correlation, verbal component, non-verbal component, visual component.

English Tourism Discourse: Insights into the Professional, Promotional and Digital Language of Tourism. Stefania M. Maci

English Tourism Discourse: Insights into the Professional, Promotional and Digital Language of Tourism. Stefania M. Maci

Leask, Nigel. Stepping Westward: Writing the Highland Tour c. 1720–1830.

Leask, Nigel. <i>Stepping Westward: Writing the Highland Tour c. 1720–1830</i>.

STUDENTS’ VIEWS ON THE UTILIZATION OF KINEMASTER APPLICATIONS FOR PICTURE DESCRIBING TECHNIQUE IN ENGLISH FOR TOURISM SUBJECT

The purpose of this research was to determine students' views on the Utilization of KineMaster Applications in Implementing Picture Describing Technique of English for Tourism. The method used is the descriptive verification method with ex post facto and survey approaches. The instrument used was a questionnaire distributed to students of English Department of STKIP La Tansa Mahiro. The results showed in general, it was found that the most of respondents agree that Picture Describing Technique using KineMaster application is very beneficial and relevant to be used in English for Tourism class. This is evidenced by the results of 75% of students agree that Picture Describing Technique using KineMaster application is quite relevant and appropriate to be implemented in English for Tourism, 20% strongly agree and 4,2% disagree

A NEEDS ANALYSIS ON STAKEHOLDERS AND ELT STUDENTS TO DEVELOP ENGLISH FOR TOURISM COURSE MATERIAL

This study investigates the needs of tourism stakeholders and students of the English Education Department to develop the English for Tourism (EFT) course material. The participants were ten hotel managers, five travel agents, and 86 second-semester students of the English Education Department. This descriptive quantitative study employed a questionnaire as the primary tool to gather the data adapted from Puspitasari (2018) and Ratmanida et al. (2020). The data then were analyzed using the formula of percentage and mean range table to determine the level of needs from the responses. The results indicated that the stakeholders and students agreed that speaking (100%) and writing (90%) were the most needed English skills to acquire. Then, in terms of the EFT topics, the participants responded to the topics that were relevant with their needs or fields. However, specifically, they seemed to have the same opinions and needs for the hotelier topics and some relevant expressions. In short, the results are expected to be beneficial for the EFT course designers to design suitable, directed, and valuable materials for students to help them be skillful and knowledgeable in the tourism industry.

THE STUDENTS’ FAMILIARITY TOWARD ENGLISH PHRASAL VERBS: A CORPUS-BASED STUDY

A phrasal verb is considered a challenging area for foreign language learners including those who learn English for specific purposes e.g English for tourism. However, to gain a good level of English, the students must learn phrasal verbs as they are commonly used by native English speakers. This study aimed to know the phrasal verb found in English for Tour and Travel Corpus (ETTC) and whether the students are familiar with the phrasal verbs found by differentiating them with prepositional verbs. The students’ familiarity was measured through a questionnaire and their ability to use them in speaking. ETTC was built from 100 articles related to Tour and Travel, and the annotation using CLAWS 7 was conducted to identify the phrasal verb found in the corpus. Then, the phrasal verbs were listed based on the lemma. Based on the result of the analysis, there are 172 multi-word verbs classified as phrasal verbs. The students who were expected to have already been familiar with them were not able to differentiate between phrasal verbs and prepositional verbs. More interestingly, they do not know all the meaning of phrasal verbs found in ETTC and the speaking test result also proved that using phrasal verbs still needed more effort as the students could not use them accurately. The result of this research can be preliminary data for further research, particularly in teaching and learning English for a specific purpose.

Developing strategies for conceptual accessibility through multimodal literacy in the English for tourism classroom

Abstract Teaching English for Tourism at university involves both developing specialized language skills and forming knowledgeable professionals capable of appropriate intercultural communication. The distinctive feature of most instances of tourism discourse is the fact that it draws from a range of specialized domains. It mediates the tourist experience and contributes to closing the gap between the home- and the destination’s culture by making culture-specific knowledge and specialized concepts accessible to non-specialists. The article discusses the instructional effects of authentic multimodal materials within task-based project-work carried out with learners at the University of Pisa. The focus is specifically on the communicative strategies used to make specialized terminology or concepts easily understandable for the hearer. This study reports on a multimodal analysis of two sets of videoclips created by the students before and after dedicated instruction based on authentic English L1 clips from documentaries, “docu-tours” and guided tours. It discusses the positive changes observed in the learners’ use of popularization strategies to create conceptual accessibility.

Pelatihan English for Tourism Berbasis Communicative Language Teaching untuk Staf Dinas Pariwisata dan Kebudayaan Kabupaten Kudus

Kudus is one of the regencies in Indonesia that has a lot of tourism potential such as nature, pilgrimage, and culinary tourism. The number of domestic and foreign tourists visiting Kudus increases every year. However, this enormous tourism potential is not adequately supported by the tourism human resources. Many staffs of tourism and culture department of Kudus still lack of English for tourism proficiency to interact with foreign tourists. This community service aims at increasing the English for tourism proficiency of the staffs of the tourism and culture department of Kudus through Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) based English training. This training was completed with role play practice in Cigarette museum of Kudus. Through this training, the staffs of tourism and culture department of Kudus can have good English for tourism proficiency that make them able to interact with foreign tourists and in the end increase tourism in Kudus. Kata kunci: English for tourism, pariwisata, communicative language teaching, staf dinas pariwisata dan kebudayaan

Research on College Tourism English Teaching Reform under the Background of Big Data

In recent years, China is increasingly open to the outside world, the international cultural exchange activities are more and more extensive, the frequency of Chinese people traveling abroad or foreign friends in China is increasing, so our demand for tourism English talents is also higher and higher. In the context of big data, network information technology has a profound impact on all walks of life. With the support of big data technology, college English teaching for tourism has made new breakthroughs and progress. Based on the background of big data, this paper analyzes and studies the current college tourism English teaching, points out the existing problems, and puts forward effective solutions to these problems.

Local content: a new instructional in EFL writing autobiography (participatory action research on tourism class)

Genres-based text in the content area of writing has long been practiced, yet the theme's content sometimes does not match learners' needs–this research aimed at discovering the effectiveness of local content-based learning media in teaching English for the tourism class. The local content selected was local public figures to write an autobiography. This research applied for participatory action research taking place in one-class English for tourism. A total of fifteen course-takers for the three-month course were recruited, documenting how the idea of local content we proposed was used to teach tourism students' writing with the test as the instrument. The teaching content is restricted to two formulated indicators; comprehending text structure and language features, including using to be and pronoun. Findings indicate that local content effectively improved course takers' comprehension of the descriptive text structure and increased vocabulary. The majority of course-takers reflected a significant improvement to meet classical passing grades in the last teaching evaluation. The diagnostic test previously was under stipulated standardized-score. The course-takers successfully wrote narration using local public figures to apply" to be" in good sentences. Moreover, overlapping use of masculine and feminine was distinguished correctly and positioned in well-constructed narrative text.

Teacher agency and the implementation of CEFR-like policies for English for tourism and hospitality: insights from local vocational high schools in Indonesia

ABSTRACT Tourism is a service industry that demands well-trained professionals with internationally accredited skills including English language proficiency. Meeting such demands has been one of the foremost concerns of the ASEAN ministries of tourism and education. In collaboration with ASEAN member countries and the Australian government, Indonesian Ministry of Education and Ministry of Tourism piloted the integration of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR), ASEAN Common Competency Standards for Tourism Professionals (ACCSTP), Common ASEAN Tourism Curriculum (CATC), Regional Qualifications Framework and Skills Recognition System (RQFSRS), and Indonesian Qualification Framework (IQF) into the National Curriculum (K-13) for hospitality and tourism education. Successfully trying out at hospitality and tourism colleges, the project was subsequently extended to vocational high schools. The study reported in this article investigated how the various policies were integrated by English teachers for their implementation in vocational high schools in a local Indonesian context and what outcomes and experiences resulted from this process. The article illustrates micro-level teacher agency in meeting regional, national and local policy mandates for preparing tourism and hospitality professionals for the common ASEAN job market.

Industry-University-Research Cooperation Education of Tourism English under Big Data Technology

With the development of computer technology and the enhancement of chip processing ability, data accumulation will become faster and more convenient. The rapid growth of large amount of data will enable people to find more and more patterns. According to large data, tourism English industry-university-research cooperation tourism can greatly improve students’ comprehensive ability, we selected 60 students from the Foreign Language Institute and divided them equally into two groups. Among them, 30 students in Group A used big data technology for the industry-university-research cooperation education of tourism English and 30 students in Group B used traditional technology. Methods Travel English education was conducted. With the development of the experiment time, we found that there were significant differences between the two groups. The experimental results showed that 30 students in group A were better than those in group B in expressive ability test. The average test of group A students was 24.21, the average test of group B students was 15.10, the difference between the two groups was 9.11, and the ability of tour guide and explanation in group A was 6.97 higher than that in group B. Therefore, using big data technology can not only improve the expressive ability, but also improve the ability of tour guides and explanations. Big data can help students better adapt to their posts, move to society and create their own value.