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.
Author: Kurnia Ulfa
Journal Code: jptinformatikagg150002
