Village tourism objects offer valuable assets that can be utilized by the village government in accelerating the welfare of the village community. The utilization of these assets cannot be separated from English communication competence. English competence has an effect on the quality of tourist services, particularly for foreign visitors. This service activity aims to improve communication skills in the English language of tourism and awareness of the essence of hospitality toward twenty-five persons in Meler village tourism. The service was carried out at the traditional house of Meler village and Meler tourist village cottage for four months (March - June 2021), once a week. The methods used to achieve this goal are lectures, question and answer, discussion, role-playing, demonstrations and personal presentation. The results show that the training participants understand the role of hospitality in tourism services and increase the fluency of communicating English in the tourism field.
This study was an attempt to analyses the pragmatic functions of EFL teachers' questioning act in their interactions with students. Data were gathered from six purposefully EFL teachers' questions in their interactions with students. Data were transcribed and analyzed following the principle of Conversation Analysis (CA) and Freed's taxonomy (1994) namely external, talk, relational, and expressive functional category. The Conversation Analysis (CA) revealed that most of the questions served more than one purpose ranging from factual information to teacher expressive styles (external, talk, relational and expressive categories). Among the functions found, confirmation and elaboration functions reflecting respectively the talk and relational functional categories appeared at most. Aside from Freed's (1994) category, the speculative function was beneficial to extend the interactions. Then, the functions of questions were not only associated with their pedagogical purposes but also with the pragmatic and social functions depending on the context where they possibly appeared.
Analysing gender issues in the teaching materials in the textbook is crucial as students' way of perceiving gender in their daily lives might be shaped by what they have learned at school. This research concerns analysing how gender representation in two EFL textbooks utilized in Indonesian secondary schools, Pathway to English for SMA/MA grade, later called textbook 1 in this study and Forward an English Course for Vocational School Students Grade VII, which was later called textbook 2. Both were published by Erlangga. The theory of personal characters proposed by (Brugeilles and Sylvie, 2009) was used as the basis theory in this study. Employing mixed-method research approaches, the researchers analysed how visuals in both textbooks portrayed gender representation by focusing on the frequency of pictures of male and female characters, occupations and activities. The study reveals that the two books show an imbalance of gender representation in all three aspects. Gender bias, especially for female occupations and activities, is apparent in the two textbooks. This study suggests that EFL teachers evaluate their textbooks to advocate for gender equality in the classroom.
Natural charm, cultural attractions and agro-tourism are the main objects of Meler tourism village. These tourism objects not only provide a wonderful natural persona (rice field spider web terrace) but also a variety of traditional dances that contain historical, educational and humanistic values that are universally applicable. These advantages can be utilized to boost the economy of rural communities. However, tourism village administrators must be digitally literate in order to maximize the economic impact of these tourism assets. The outcome target of this community service is to improve the digital literacy skills of the seven Meler tourist village administrators. This community service was carried out at the Meler village office for two months (May – June 2021), twice a week. A number of methods have been applied to meet the intended outcome targets, namely lecturing, questions and answers, discussions, demonstrations and presentations. The results indicate that the training participants have understood and applied the concept of digital literacy in managing tourism villages.
Sebagai salah satu Sekolah Menengah Atas di Kabupaten Manggarai Timur-Propinsi Nusa Tenggara Timur, siswa di SMAK Pancasila Borong mengalami kesulitan dalam mengembangkan keterampilan menulis dalam Bahasa Inggris. Oleh karena itu, tim PKM dari program studi pendidikan Bahasa Inggris Universitas Katolik Indonesia Santu Paulus Ruteng mengadakan kegiatan pengabdian untuk melatih siswa di sekolah tersebut. Kegiatan ini dirancang untuk membantu siswa mengembangkan kemampuan menulis teks naratif dengan menggunakan media gambar berseri. Metode yang digunakan pada kegiatan PKM ini adalah presentasi dan simulasi atau latihan. Hasil dari kegiatan PKM ini menunjukan bahwa penggunaan media gambar berseri dalam menulis teks naratif dinilai baik oleh siswa. Dengan berkaca pada hasil kegiatan ini, penggunaan media gambar berseri dalam menulis perlu ditingkatkan dan digunakan dalam kelas untuk membantu siswa mengasah keterampilan menulis mereka
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