Language Teaching in Vocational Higher Education Based on Industry Needs
- DOI
- 10.2991/eltlt-18.2019.33How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- competencies, curriculum, industry needs, need analysis, syllabus
- Abstract
The globalization era and also the implementation of Asian Free Trade, make Indonesia face the influx of goods & services frorm Asian countries, and also from other countries as well. Moreover, foreign human resources working in Indonesia will be incrasing. This will cause the competition of getting jobs in Indonesia for Indonesian higher education graduates becoming tighter and tighter, since they have to compete with the graduates form other countries who look for jobs in Indonesia. Therefore, the quality of the education in Indonesia should be improved. This includes Polytechnic as Vocational Tertiary Education in Indonesia which produce graduates who are ready to work in industry. Polytechnic should provide their students to have sufficient competencies to enable them to win the job competition in their own country. They should have adequate competencies in their own field (in accordance with their majoring) and supported with the ability to communicate in English as one of international language commonly used in industries in the globalization eracountries as well. Moreover, foreign human resources working in Indonesia will be incrasing. This will cause the competition of getting jobs in Indonesia for Indonesian higher education graduates becoming tighter and tighter, since they have to compete with the graduates form other countries who look for jobs in Indonesia. Therefore, the quality of the education in Indonesia should be improved. This includes Polytechnic as Vocational Tertiary Education in Indonesia which produce graduates who are ready to work in industry. Polytechnic should provide their students to have sufficient competencies to enable them to win the job competition in their own country. They should have adequate competencies in their own field (in accordance with their majoring) and supported with the ability to communicate in English as one of international language commonly used in industries in the globalization era.
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Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Nurul Hamida AU - Sri Wahyuningsih Sulaiman AU - Mr Pandiya PY - 2019/06 DA - 2019/06 TI - Language Teaching in Vocational Higher Education Based on Industry Needs BT - Proceedings of the UNNES International Conference on English Language Teaching, Literature, and Translation (ELTLT 2018) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 165 EP - 170 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/eltlt-18.2019.33 DO - 10.2991/eltlt-18.2019.33 ID - Hamida2019/06 ER -