Journey: Journal of English Language and Pedagogy
Vol. 8 No. 2 (2025): Journey: Journal of English Language and Pedagogy

Tourism Students’ Perception towards English as their Foreign Language in Indonesia

Anam, Mochammad Musafa'ul (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
13 Jan 2026

Abstract

In this global era, English is not only spoken by the native speaker of English. It plays as an essential role in many aspects such as academic, sciences, literatures, music, as well as tourism industry. One of the countries that use English for its’ educational and tourism sector is Indonesia. This study is aiming to identify the Indonesians of Tourism Students’ perception towards English language as their foreign language. this study employed a quantitative approach that used questionnaire as its’ main data colleting instrument. The total of population of this study were 111 students of Program Diploma Kepariwisataan, University of Merdeka Malang. The result of this study found that there is no clear relationship between the learning duration and language acceptance of the students. The English language improvement can be obtained through a comprehensive development of pedagogical, psychological and institutional aspect. It needs an integrated-complete skill of English such as listening, speaking, reading and writing. By having such supportive environment, students are expected to understand more effectively and perform English with no doubt.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

journey

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Subject

Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

Journal title : Journey: Journal of English Language and Pedagogy Initials and abbreviation : Journey Grade : Sinta 4 Prefix DOI : 10.33503/journey E-ISSN and P-ISSN : 2654-5586 and 2623-0356 Editor in chief : Munawwir Hadiwijaya Managing Editor : Hernina Dewi Lestari Publisher : Insan Budi Utomo ...