Tourism English Research Articles

STYLISTIC AND GRAMMATICAL POTENTIAL OF ENGLISH TOURISM DISCOURSE

Purpose. The paper aims at discovering stylistic and grammatical peculiarities in tourism discourse based on VisitBritain.com text corpus; analyzing its application scope and mission; specifying “tourism discourse” as a notion.
 Methodology. Used in the paper are general scientific methods (synthesis, generalization), analysis of the text corpus, method of linguistic analysis.
 Results. The issue of tourism discourse as a separate unit, not a subtype of advertising discourse, remains highly disputable nowadays. The present paper analyses the theoretical basis of notions of “discourse” and “tourism discourse”; determines the levels and communication means in tourism; substantiates the hypothesis on multi-component and multi-modal structure of tourism discourse as a linguistic phenomenon. In the practical part of the research, the author draws special attention to the specifics of the English tourism discourse in terms of typology, lexicology and morphology. The paper concludes by saying that tourism discourse is different from advertising one as well as requires further investigation into the issue.
 Practical implications. The results presented in the article can be used both in theory and applications, i.e., further inquiry into the pragmatic constituent of tourism discourse and its interdisciplinarity; compilation of corpora of tourist texts in the English language; adaptation of the English tourism discourse for present-day realities and addressees’ demands.

Teaching English for Tourism: Bridging research and praxis (a review)

Teaching English for Tourism: Bridging research and praxis (a review)

Interest of the Students in the Lecturer's Teaching Performance in the Hybrid Classroom

Abstract. This study sought to determine whether students in the English Language Study Program are interested in the lecturer's teaching performance in learning English for Tourism subject for hybrid classroom, as well as the impact of the lecturer's teaching performance on students' interest in learning English for Tourism subject. This study employed a combination of quantitative and qualitative studies In the academic year 2021/2022, the population consisted of students of English Language Education (ELE) study program. There were 260 ELE students as the population. By addressing purposive sampling, which has some categories namely: the students who were enrolling in English for Tourism subject; the students were eager to participate in this study. There were 52 students involved as the subject. In order to obtain the data, the researchers utilized the survey questionnaires and semi-structured interview as research tools. Testing the hypotheses provided information on the relationship between lecturer’s teaching performance and students’ interest in learning English for Tourism subject. SPSS version 26 for Windows was utilized by the researcher to handle and analyze the data for this study. The findings of this study demonstrate that the majority of questionnaire computations result in. According to the findings of the interviews, the majority of students believe that the teacher's teaching performance has an impact on students' interest in learning the English for Tourism’ subject. Some implications has been proposed by the researchers namely: the beginning to build effective plans, well-prepared lecturers need to have a thorough understanding of the work at hand, they are: the language appropriate for the level; the appropriate skills; the appropriate learning resources; the appropriate teaching stages and methods; A variety of activities; Classroom management abilities; grab your online and offline studentsKeywords: Students’ Interest; Teaching Performance; Hybrid Classroom

The Students’ Perception on the use of Blue button application in Teaching English for Tourism Course in Indonesia Student Micro Credential Program

This study is aimed to describe about students’ perception in the learning process in English for Tourism using Blue Button Application in the Indonesia Student Micro Credential and what are the difficulties that the students faced during learning through the Blue Button Application as the learning media. This research used descriptive Qualitative method that the researcher took the data collection from interview and questionnaire sheets. The subject of this research was the students from English for Tourism class in the Student Micro Credential Program that held by the government collaboration with tourism industry and Universitas Pendidikan Muhammadiyah Sorong. From this research it is found that (1) The students felt easy to use Blue Button Application in learning English for Tourism, (2) the students are easily to access the material like video, text, and picture. (3) students interested with the design of material which presented in the application. (4) the students effectively followed English for Tourism class through Blue Button Application. Meanwhile the difficulties that the students facing during learning English for Tourism using Blue Button Application are (1) the unstable internet connection (2) some students still not familiar with Blue Button Application (3) the upload system that used in the application is very easy for other students to copy. (4) most of the students agreed that they have lack of experience by practicing tourism guide through the application.
 Keywords: students’ perception, Blue Button Application, English for Tourism

Changing Nature of English Tourism Discourse: A Linguistic Approach

In the modern world, the tourism business is becoming more and more popular and is developing at a tremendous speed. Different changes connected with the spreading of pandemic viruses, global and geopolitical changes influences all spheres of life, and tourism is not an exception. Such sciences as sociology, economics, psychology, and linguistics are trying to research the results of such changes. The study aims to explore the reasons of changing nature of English tourism discourse and their consequences which can be viewed at lexical, grammatical and stylistic levels. The relevance of this topic is due to the fact that, despite the presence of a large number of works devoted to the study of tourism discourse, the issue of its typological status has not been resolved. The methodology of the research is represented by a complex approach to the analysis of linguistic facts, which implies the mandatory consideration of any phenomenon in close relationship and interdependence with all elements included in the unified system of the text. In this work, the following methods of analysis of English tourism discourse include descriptive method (observation, interpretation and generalization), analysis and comparison of dictionary definitions, method of contextual analysis. The research findings of the study show the linguo-stylistic features of different genres of tourism discourse in changing conditions.

SEMANTIC WAYS OF FORMING TOURISM TERMS IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

This study is devoted to the etymological analysis of English tourism terms, namely, the semantic ways of forming the specified lexical units. The tourism industry and its terminological system are a relevant object of research in the conditions of the modern globalized world. The work uses etymological analysis as the main research method. Intralingual borrowing accompanied by terminologicalization, specialization, expansion, metaphorization of the commonly used meaning of a word, metonymic transfer of the meaning of a commonly used word can be considered a lexical-semantic way of term formation. A special group among monosyllabic terms is made up of terms whose scope of meaning in the special vocabulary is similar to the scope of their meanings in common language. These are terms formed by terminologicalizing the commonly used meaning of the word. The development of the meaning of such special lexemes took place gradually, as the language was enriched with experience and formed scientific concepts. Tourism terms, which were formed on the basis of semantic shifts, which gave rise to a significant discrepancy between their old meanings and the new concepts that they began to name, arose on the basis of the expansion of the meaning of existing words in the language. In tourism terminology, a small group of simple special units, which were formed by metaphorizing the meaning of a commonly used word, is quite clearly presented. Metaphorization of the meaning of commonly used words usually takes place first taking into account the external similarity, and later — taking into account the similarity of the functions of the so-called objects. A certain number of terms is formed by means of narrowing, specialization of the meaning, which may be evidence that the corresponding terminology begins to stand out from the everyday language and is perceived as a special layer of vocabulary.

English for Tourism: Course Structure and Methodology

English for Tourism: Course Structure and Methodology

Trends in Teaching English for Tourism: A Systematic review (2013-2022)

Trends in Teaching English for Tourism: A Systematic review (2013-2022)

Standardized Translation Strategies of Red Tourism English from the Perspective of Functionalism

Standardized Translation Strategies of Red Tourism English from the Perspective of Functionalism

Design of Tourism English Teaching Objectives from the Perspective of Core Literacy

Design of Tourism English Teaching Objectives from the Perspective of Core Literacy

A Study on the Talents Cultivation Model of Vocational Tourism English Students Based on the Integration of Industry and Education from the perspective of Stakeholders

A Study on the Talents Cultivation Model of Vocational Tourism English Students Based on the Integration of Industry and Education from the perspective of Stakeholders

Exploration of Tourism English Teaching in Universities within the Context of Ideological and Political Education Goals

Exploration of Tourism English Teaching in Universities within the Context of Ideological and Political Education Goals

The Application of Schema Theory in Listening and Speaking Teaching of Tourism English in Higher Vocational Colleges

The Application of Schema Theory in Listening and Speaking Teaching of Tourism English in Higher Vocational Colleges

Changing Nature of English Tourism Discourse: A Linguistic Approach

Changing Nature of English Tourism Discourse: A Linguistic Approach

Developing English for Tourism Learning Model Based on Hypermedia

The development of the global tourism industry rapidly makes the importance of English communication skill at tourism workplace. State Polytechnic of Lampung has provided English subjects 1, 2, and 3 for students. Unfortunately, the implementation has not given any significant contribution to improve students’ English communication skills especially English for tourism. English instructional materials did not fulfill students’ needs and stakeholders’ needs and standard English competences in tourism workplace. The limitation of learning source become a learning problem for students due to limitation of time to practice English out site of classroom without teacher’s guidance. Therefore, it is important to develop a kind of learning model which independence resource that gives a solution to solve the learning problems. Developing model of English learning for tourism based on hypermedia was intended to give an alternative independence learning resource to improve competences in English for Tourism based on hypermedia. The developing of English learning model base on hypermedia applied research and development (R&D) model used a combination of Dick and Carrey model, Hannafin peck Model and Allen model. There were three stages in developing model of English for tourism based on hypermedia. The first step was conducting needs analysis; identifying instructional goals, conducting instructional analysis, and analyzing learners and contexts. The second step was designing material for learning based on hypermedia that was electronic module; writing instructional objectives, developing assessment instruments, and developing learning strategies. The third steps were developing learning material and implementation; developing and selecting instructional materials, implementing and conducting formative evaluation and revision. The results of the formative evaluation from subject matter experts (instructional, media and English for tourism), one to one evaluation, showed that model of English learning for tourism based on hypermedia generally was categorized very good (average score: 89,31). One to one evaluation by three learners was also and small group evaluation by eight learners which evaluated on clarity, impact on learners and feasibility showed that design model of English learning for tourism based on hypermedia was categorized very good. Field trial that was conducted to 37 students indicated that model design of English learning based on hypermedia for tourism was good and suitable with learning objective, easy to use and understand, demonstrate learning experiences, sufficient for English materials, useful, assessment measure learning outcome, feedback, interesting and engaging learning, motivating, and collaboration between students. The t-test paired sample test showed that design of English for tourism was effective to be used as learning resources with average pretest score was 58,05 and average post test score was 70,92 with gain score was 12,86, while the significant (2-tailed) was 0,000 < 0,05.

Pelatihan Bahasa Inggris Dasar Bagi Karang Taruna di Kecamatan Sintoga Kabupaten Padang Pariaman

The tourism industry is currently growing rapidly. The tourism village program, which is currently being promoted by the government, encourages young people who are members of youth organizations to be able to promote tourist attractions in their villages. In a tourism village program, ideally young people among village cadets serve as guides, guides and even determine the success of this program. Youth in Karang taruna need to have basic English for Tourism in order to be able to describe and promote the tourism of the village to tourists who visit later. However, the facts found in the field that there are still many Karang taruna members who are unable to communicate English. They are not at all familiar with English. Based on that phenomenon, this activity aims to help introducing and maximizing basic English learning for Karang Taruna members in the Sintoga District, Padang Pariaman. The target to be achieved is that the Karang Taruna members of the youth group understand the basics of English and can properly promote tourist attractions in their village. The method used in this community service is a communicative approach method, by training Karang Taruna members to be able to communicate in English contextually. The results of this training show that the enthusiasm of the Karang Taruna members to learn and improve their English skills. Their responds are positive.Next, it is hoped that this program can be continued regularly in the future

PEMBERDAYAAN DAN PENINGKATAN KAPASITAS KELEMBAGAAN MASYARAKAT DESA MELALUI AGROWISATA BERBAHASA INGGRIS

Agribusiness utilizes inorganic waste that can be recycled to produce selling points such as basket bags from plastic waste and dolls from cloth waste. There is a superior product in this business unit, namely processed Jenitri seeds which are processed into handicrafts. Jenitri seeds are not only used as an ornamental tool. In certain beliefs, the work of Jenitri seeds is used as a worship tool and a medical device. Therefore, Jenitri seeds have a fairly high selling value compared to other handicrafts because of their various functions. Adiluhur Tourism Village is a village that is currently under development as a tourist spot with the name Kebumen English Tourism Village (KWIK) and is located in Adiluhur Village, Kec. Adimulyo, Kab. Kebumen. There are 3 business units that are superior and are still in the development stage, namely business units in the fields of tourism (agro-tourism), agriculture (agriculture), and handicrafts (agribusiness). Currently, the primary superior unit in Adiluhur Tourism Village is a business unit in the tourism sector. Agrotourism is managed by CV in collaboration with BUMDes (Village Owned Enterprise) Mulia Jaya. The tour featured in this unit is an introduction to several types of captive animals (various types of snakes, monitor lizards, sea urchins, iguanas, mongooses, Australian geckos, crocodiles, alligator fish, and many more) as well as a museum containing ancient agricultural tools (bronze spoon, harrows, sickles, hoes, nails, antique lamps, and many more). The potential that is being developed in this unit is outbound with the target visitor being Elementary Schools. Not only that, the agro-tourism manager plans to work with the BKSDA (Natural Resources Conservation Center) in caring for the animals in the unit.

An analysis of the development of CALL literacy during Spanish lockdown in an English for Tourism course.

This paper presents the strategies that were implemented –in order to support the new students’ needs– in a course of English for Specific Purposes, more specifically, English for Tourism II, from the Degree in Tourism of UNED, the Spanish National University of Distance Education, during the period of strict lockdown due to the crisis caused by COVID-19 pandemic (from March 14 to the beginning of June 2020). UNED has traditionally been based on blended learning, so students develop, through their studies, Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL) literacy (Tafazoli, 2014, 2017). Even if technology is, and has been, the most essential support tool for teaching and learning, some activities that were developed before the crisis in a face-to-face format such as mentoring sessions, the final exams had to be offered exclusively online. The acquisitionof new digital skills (Dudeney et al., 2013) was thus challenging for both mentors, teachers and students. In this paper, a comparative analysis between the academic years 2018-2019 and 2019-2020 is carried out, in order to analyze the differences between both periods, and to obtain data on how the shift to a fully online course under a lockdown context affected students’ performance. In this sense, the main research question posed here is: is there a difference in students’ performance and results between the two academic years? Another research question, deriving from the main one, is: how can students’ computer assisted language learning and/or digital literacy skills be encouraged through motivation? Results show that students were more involved and motivated in the course in 2019-2020, and that the marks obtained were significantly higher.

Identifying the Language Requirements of English for Tourism at Toraja Christian University of Indonesia

The purpose of this study is to identify the language requirements associated with English for Tourism. The respondent of the current research were Students in the sixth semester of the English Department at UKI Toraja who have recently completed the English for Tourism course. The researcher employed accidental sampling. Data were collected through interviews. The results of this research show that the language requirements needed in learning English for Tourism pertain to: Tourism knowledge, Accommodation, Culinary Tour [ pa’piong (meat cooked in bamboo), Torajan Culture [tradition, music, and art] tradition: rambutuka’ (wedding party) and rambu solo’ (funeral ceremony)., art: Ma’badong ( Traditional dance), pompang ( Traditional music). This suggests that the topic for the English for Tourism course should be developed through Torajan culture.

Developing Local-Based English for Tourism Material for Religious and Cultural Tour Guide Program Students: A Needs Analysis

Teaching ESP requires a thorough and systematic way in developing the materials because the purpose is to help students develop their English competence in specific disciplines. What was found in the teaching of English for Tourism in the Religious and Cultural Tour Guide Program in Tampung Penyang State Hindu Institute (IAHN) of Palangka Raya was the absence of proper materials for the students. This study is a small part of Research and Development (RnD) project for an English for Tourism book of this faculty. It involved the stakeholder and the practitioner in the local tourism industry as the informants in giving insights to local-based material development. Employing a qualitative approach, the in-depth interviews were conducted. The results of this study finally offer some recommendation for English for Tourism materials: 1) speaking and writing as the top priorities of required English skills, 2) language functions included: self-introduction, negotiating, handling tourists at an airport, making an itinerary, writing and replaying an email, and describing tourist destination or place, 3) vocabulary related to tourism industry and especially tour guiding, 4) cross-cultural understanding, and 5) local tourist destinations.