Tutuk Widowati
State Polytechnic of Malang

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Employing English in the workplace for communication and interaction Tutuk Widowati
Jurnal Linguistik Terapan JLT Volume 2 No 1, 2012
Publisher : UPT P2M Politeknik Negeri Malang

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The EFL teaching in Indonesia has been considered as a failure as proven by the fact that senior high school graduates cannot use it in the society. Studies conducted to improve students speaking skill seem to miss the importance of language inputs. Therefore, in this article the writer tries to give ideas on how to design and English teaching materials for workplace/workshop English class for Civil Engineering students following Hutchinson and Waters (1987:108). With such a model, a lesson (material) consists of four elements: input, content focus, language focus, task. Inside this model, there is a vocabulary building part. And to be comprehensive, the tasks consist of language task, writing task, and speaking task.
Developing communicative skills-based reading materials for technical English course of Civil Engineering Study Program State Polytechnic of Malang Tutuk Widowati
Jurnal Linguistik Terapan JLT Volume 1 No 1, 2011
Publisher : UPT P2M Politeknik Negeri Malang

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Reading is the most suitable skill in English for Specific Purposes (ESP) teaching and learning process. However, other skills should be accommodated in it. This study aims at developing appropriate communicative skills‐based reading materials for Technical English 1 (TE 1) Course at Civil Engineering Study Program (CESP) State Polytechnic of Malang. The proposed materials had to go through expert verifications and revisions. Then the revised materials experienced field try‐outs and revisions to be validated as a final product. A recycle was done to strengthen the validation. There are 7 units of reading developed based on Contextual Teaching and Learning (CTL) method, completed with appropriate learning activities and assessment techniques. The implementation of CTL approach has brought about betterment in the teaching and learning process of TE 1 Course for CESP students State Polytechnic of Malang.