In this global era, the progress in economic, social, political, and cultural fields have made the world increasingly changing from day to day. It is a must for every individual to have skills so she or he could survive among the competition. At present, we have entered the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) in which converts ASEAN into a free trade area. Many countries race themselves to develop t…
The elimination of English from the 2013 Curriculum of primary school-level of education gets various reactions from the society. The cons state that English has to be learned at early age because it is a global era. People go everywhere and meet people from many parts of the world easily and the easiest way is using English as a tool for communication. The pros state that character building is…
The teaching of ESP so far has been dominated by the belief that linguistic mastery of English is considered sufficient to deliver the contents of the subject matter concerned. This view seems to need a critical overview for verbal communication in general, let alone in ESP, requires both proficiency in the language and the contents. This implies that English teachers in ESP need to be equipped…
Several global events such as the agreement of free visas within ASEAN countries, the enhancement of APEC in 2020, the policy of the Indonesian government to add free visas for thirty countries this year, and the MDGs will impact significantly on the teaching learning proceess of english, including curriculum designing. The challenge faced by students of hospitality and tourism in learning engl…
English as a tool for communication in the globalized world has lead to the need to shift the focus of teaching orientation. The teaching of English should shift from General English (GE) to Specific English (SP). This anticipates the follow-up action of the ASEAN Community in 2015 on the agreement of the movement of five areas: free flow of goods, services, investment, capital and free flow of…