DESIGNING ESP MATERIALS FOR TOURISM STUDENTS OF AKADEMI PARIWISATA MEDAN

ABSTRACK: This  research  deals  with  designing  ESP  materials  for  tourism  students  of  Akademi  Pariwisata  Medan.  The objective of this study is to find out the student’ needs of English materials and than to develop by design of new English material for tourism which are relevant to the needs especially for the middle class of Manajemen Usaha Perjalanan  (MUP)  in  Akademi  Pariwisata  Medan.  The  method  of  research  was  a  research  and  development (R&D)  by  Borg  and  Gall which  consists  of 10  steps  of research. In this research,  those  steps are modified  in  5 steps,  namely;  students’  needs  analysis,  analyzing  the  syllabus  in  order  to  develop  the  syllabus,    analyzing  the existing of English materials in order to develop the materials based on the students need especially preparation on  doing  job  trainning  program  in  future,  validating  the  new  materials  to  the  experts,  and  revising  the  new materials. The method of data collection were questionnaire, interview, and documents. The sources of the data were  from  the  English  lecturer  of  middle  class  from  Manajemen  Usaha  Perjalanan  (MUP)  study  program,  6th semester students of  Manajemen Usaha Perjalanan (MUP) study  program who has  done job trainning  program, alumni  of  Manajemen  Usaha  Perjalanan  (MUP)  study  program,  and  the  documents    which  were  the  existing syllabus and materials. Based on research finding from the lecturer and students’ speaking skill is most needed in English  material  for tourism.  The  speaking in  fluency  is the target needs  to  have  communicate to  the customer while doing job training in tourism field. Afterwards, the new materials were validated by the experts, then were revised and lastly became the final products of the material development. As the conclusions, the new materials meet the students’ needs and the researcher offered the accelerated learning model and suggested to the teacher  should be applied to teach English material for tourism, because it is a natural learning and easy to learn which integrates  brain,  emotion,  and  body  to  activate  conscious  and  unconscious  thought  by  using  relaxation,  music and  suggestion.  It  can  be  created  an  effective  learning  by  doing  in  communicative  language  teaching.  Use  the related  material  from  one  to  another  will  be  useful  to  the  students’  to  memorizing  the  material  taught  and  the students’ will be enjoyed the material in the classroom.
Key words:  ESP Material for Tourism, Accelerated Learning, and  Developing Material
Author: Kurnia Ulfa
Journal Code: jptinformatikagg150002

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