Keyword-Based Model of Teaching English for Adult Learners

Abstract

To be able to speak English, especially among academics (lecturers and officers) is a long-standing dream in Islamic University of North Sumatra. However, in reality until now this dream has not been realized. It is ironic to communicate with partners or co-workers from other countries, if there are still obstacles in communicating with one of the international languages, namely English because English is a very common international language compared to other international languages such as Mandarin and Arabic. Currently, the ability to speak English is very much needed in education and company. As stated in a reseach that "At this time, the use of English is very much needed because of the importance of using English in everyday life, starting from education, business, to technology. If the learning uses an effective method, the output of using English will also produce useful soft skills ranging from the ability to write, speak, listen, and read. Soft skills like these are very much needed in the world of work. Therefore this shows how important the use of English nowadays" (Putra, 2020) According to Astuti et al (2019) Education is an obligation of every human being that must be pursued to hold responsibilities and try to produce progress in knowledge and experience for the lives of every individual. Education is one of the efforts to improve the ability of human intelligence, thus he is able to improve the quality of his life (Saleh and Mujahiddin, 2020). Education is expected to be able to answer all the challenges of the times and be able to foster national generations, so that people become reliable and of high