Local Culture in English for Tour Guide

DOI

10.2991/eltlt-18.2019.42How to use a DOI?

Keywords

English, guide, Kandri, local culture

Abstract

This paper describes the local culture embedded in English for tour guide. The effort for the internationalization in Kandri Tourism Village has been a milestone to explore and to promote Kota Semarang as a tourism destination in Central Java. Kandri tourism village has been appointed by the local Government as one of the hosts on “International Folklore Festival 2019”. The role of local culture explored in this village and the capability of tour guides becomes really important to increase the amount of tourists in the purpose of income generating. Therefore, this paper aims twofold. Firstly, it aims to explore kinds of the local culture embedded in English for tour guide during the training program in Kandri tourism village. Secondly, this paper aims to describe the English expressions containing the local culture done in the local society. The findings suggest that the local culture exposed by Kandri’s people has a lot of similarities with Javanese culture. It can be concluded that some of the cultures in Kandri are a result of adoption from Javanese cultures. Thus, these local cultures should be greatly emphasized on their speaking skills to strengthen their cultural identity

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Pasca Kalisa
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TI  - Local Culture in English for Tour Guide
BT  - Proceedings of the UNNES International Conference on English Language Teaching, Literature, and Translation (ELTLT 2018)
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