Learners' Perspectives on English as a Learning Media in Maritime English Classes

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10.2991/iconprocs-19.2019.22How to use a DOI?

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the medium of instruction in English subject and what learners really need in teaching and learning process in a maritime English classroom.This study used a qualitative research method, with interviews and observations as data collecting techniques. The participants of this study are 15 students of grade eleven of the maritime vocational school in Cilacap.The result of this study shows that the students find some difficulties in understanding English as a medium of instruction used by the teacher in the teaching-learning process. This study also identifies what the students expect from their English classes. Students need more interesting teaching methods, such as games to foster their motivation. Games can reduce students' boredom in the classroom and can refresh their mind. In addition, they also want to have fun in the classroom and therefore their teacher can use songs as students' motivation enhancer. The original song lyrics can be replaced with maritime terms to help them learn more. In addition, visiting vessels guided by their English teacher was also a help for them to learn. Besides, their English teacher and vessels crews help them to learn directly about the terms related to shipping or maritime. Instead of using English only as a medium of instruction, the students suggest using bilingual language in classroom activities.

Abstract

Vocational Education, Teaching English,

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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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TY  - CONF
AU  - Marsitah Marsitah
AU  - Bambang Pratolo
PY  - 2019/05
DA  - 2019/05
TI  - Learners' Perspectives on English as a Learning Media in Maritime English Classes
BT  - Proceedings of the First International Conference on Progressive Civil Society (ICONPROCS 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 108
EP  - 112
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/iconprocs-19.2019.22
DO  - 10.2991/iconprocs-19.2019.22
ID  - Marsitah2019/05
ER  -