Research and Development in Education (RaDEn)
Vol. 4 No. 2 (2024): December

Improving the English-speaking skills of tourists in Wonocoyo village through bilingual guidebook

Dwi Wahyuningtyas (Department of English for Business and Professional Communication, Faculty of Social and Politics Sciences, Universitas Pembangunan Nasional Veteran Jawa Timur, Indonesia)
Laksmi Diana (Department of English for Business and Professional Communication, Faculty of Social and Politics Sciences, Universitas Pembangunan Nasional Veteran Jawa Timur, Indonesia)
Rina Wahyu Setyaningrum (English Language Education Department, Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, Universitas Muhammadiyah Malang, Indonesia)
Revina Dwi Masayu (Department of Public Administration, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Universitas Pembangunan Nasional Veteran Jawa Timur, Indonesia)
Adinda Deviana (Department of English for Business and Professional Communication, Faculty of Social and Politics Sciences, Universitas Pembangunan Nasional Veteran Jawa Timur, Indonesia)
Yustin Dwi Rahmawati (Master of English Education, Faculty of Education, Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta, Indonesia)



Article Info

Publish Date
05 Dec 2024

Abstract

Through this research, the researchers intended to seek information and data on how a bilingual guidebook improves the tour guides' speaking skills. This research provides an overview of classroom action research conducted in Wonocoyo Tourism village to investigate their improvement in English skills using a bilingual guidebook the researcher designed. The research participants were four tour guides in Desa Wisata Wonocoyo Panggul, Trenggalek. They were given a pretest and two post-tests to observe their pretest skills deposit tests. The pretest showed that the English skills level of the tour guides was low to intermediate. The treatment was then given using the bilingual guidebook designed for the post-test. The researcher designed the planning, action, observation, and reflection that become the fundamentals of two post-tests. The first post-test indicated good results, and the tour guides experienced improvement in some aspects. After some reflection, the researcher conducted the second post-test, resulting in a better score for the tour guides. The result revealed that the English skills of the tour guide English skills, mainly speaking, can be improved through the bilingual guidebook.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

raden

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Education

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Research and Development in Education is a scientific journal that aims at publishing research results and review in Research and Development of education in various science fields. Research and Development results can be in classroom-oriented, product-oriented, and system-oriented perspectives ...