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English Teaching Speaking Main Activities Toward Puppet Artisans and Their Response : English for Tourism in Kepuhsari Vilage
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English Teaching Speaking Main Activities toward Puppet Artisans and Their Response: English for Tourism in Kepuhsari Village

 

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Findings of research on communicative language teaching have extended on two approaches in English teaching as second language (L2) and foreign language: task-based Instruction (TBI) and content-based instruction (CBI) These approaches seemed to be different in terms of views and assumptions (Richards, 2007). TBI examines the prominence of tasks as centre of language learning rather than CBI that focuses on content as main driver in language learning. In CBI, teaching content is separated with teaching language (Kraknke, 1987). Also, content is the focus in teaching L2 and foreign language; therefore it is decided first before other teaching aspects, i.e. vocabulary, pronunciation, grammar, and soon (Richard, 2007)

English for tourism village as striking English teaching content is necessary since it is necessary for human beings. In Kepuhsari village,Wonogiri, Indonesia, declared by Indonesia government as wayang village and a puppet itself was decided by UNESCO in 7 November 2003 as world master piece of oral and intangible heritage of humanity (UNESCO, 2008), the villagers need English speaking practice when they are training foreigners to practice in making a shadow puppet, in guiding foreigners, and to guide using English toward foreigners. Setiyanto (2015) and Supeni and Sufa (2016) state that the villagers commonly use gesture and certain vocabulary to do so. It, of course, creates a problem because the message is not clearly and completely conveyed. Also, it is conceived as inappropriate way to welcome and guide guestsdue to poor language mastery. Thus, inability of English speaking creates misperception toward characters' values of the villagers. They might be seen as giving unserious and non-standard service during visitation of the tourists.Whereas, the number of foreign tourists visiting there increases year to year and, of course, it affects income of the villagers because during their visitation, they commonly buy souvenirs made by the villagers, live in a villager's guest house, eat local culinary, visit tourism destination in the village, and practice to make a shadow puppet trained by the villagers' artisansThe number of foreign visitors are very high but it cannot be covered by only 74 puppets artisans. According to Setiyanto (2015) and Supeni and Sufa (2016) the number of foreign tourists are 200 in every month and their purpose to visit is to practice to make a shadow puppet, whereas there are only 74 puppets' craftsman who are able to train them through gestures because they cannot speak in English. . Subsequently, Supeni and Sufa (2016) also said that the puppets' artisans seriously needed English speaking skill particularly to interact with foreign tourists when they are practicing making the puppet to tell them the process in making it.Besides that, the villagers need oral English to guide foreign tourists when they are visiting tourism destination in the village. In addition, the keepers of guest house need English speaking to guide the tourists when they are living in their guest house.

They also said that Almost all villagers have ever obtained English but they forgot it. They just remember a little word but they seldom use it. Also, they could not easier repeat pronunciation that has been said by teachers. They could not identify which words on the board that they are saying. Thus, their English is elementary level. However, due to their needs to master English to speak to foreigners, the focus is on the content of English. It is the most important things although their grammar and choice of words still use inter language and their pronunciation is often false. The following is the table showing the artisans' English Mastery.

A number of studies have been carried out as contribution of English in tourism village.Chiwanga (2014) has carried out a study to mediate between language skill and the real language use in the tourism domain in Tanzania. One of the result is it assisted doers of tourism to use competent language skill adopted from curricula so that they could practice English with tourists well. …


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