English for International Job Opportunities

17 Table 4. Students’ perception on English for communication English for international communication SA A + D SD - 10 Communicate in English is easy. 10,2 31,3 41,4 53,9 4,7 58,6 11 I want to improve my English abiliities. 46,9 49,2 96,1 3,1 0,8 3,9 12 English is important for social life. 30,5 53,9 84, 14,1 1,6 15,6 13 English helps you increase your self- confidence. 32,8 54,7 87,5 10,2 2,3 12,5 14 English helps you communicate with tourists. 39,8 53,1 93,0 7,0 0,0 7,0 15 Everyone should be capable in English because it is an international language. 31,3 56,3 87,5 11,7 0,8 12,5 could decrease their motivation to learn English. The possible solution that may the government or the educators could do is give an English program to the students to raise their awareness of the importance of English in order to give them a motivation to learn it, like what the government of Cameroon done Focho 2011, p. 10. However, the rest of the items of this category show a good result. More than 80 of the students gave positive attitudes towards item number 11 to 15. It means a huge number of participants were aware about the importance of English in communication. It does not take any differen ces with Jefizai‟s result that said 18 the biggest students‟ intrinsic motivation in learning English is to improve their language skill and for their social interaction with native speakers Jefizai, 2012.

4. English for Global Education

This last category is an attempt to figure out the students‟ perceptions toward the importance of English in globalization. The result of this category shows that more than 90 of the participants gave good attitudes to each item. It means the majority of the students were aware about the importance of English for global education. Besides believing that English is important for the globalization, the participants saw that English is needed by their country to follow the global development, like Zacharias 2003 said that without English, people in Indonesia would be left behind and unable to compete Zacharias, 2003, p. 58. Not only by their country, they also thought that Table 5. Students’ perceptions on English for global education Bahasa Inggris dalam globalisasi SS S + TS STS - 16 English is important for the global world development. 41,4 53,1 94,5 4,7 0,8 5,5 17 English is needed by Indonesia to follow the global world development. 42,2 53,9 96,1 3,9 0,0 3,9 18 English helps you to know much about the global world. 43,8 50,0 93,8 5,5 0,8 6,3