30 finance, and marketing. Other business classes may include leadership or
organizational behavior classes or Business Policy. Most importantly in the curriculum are the core courses. These core
courses are the backbone of the accounting program and are meant to provide students with the skills necessary to find employment after graduation. The
students are expected to take courses in advanced financial accounting, advanced managerial accounting, Federal Income Taxation, Tax Code, and Auditing.
Students can also choose between different concentrations such as international accounting or business systems. Some universities also offer course in specific
subjects such as financial statement analysis, forensic accounting, and accounting research.
This research tried to find out how the teaching of English in Accounting department, Sanata Dharma university helps the students to improve their
communication skills in business using English. The Accounting Department of Sanata Dharma University has English programs in order to prepare the students
with the skills and competence to communicate effectively using correct and appropriate English in business communication. There are three English courses
for the students of the first and second year: Bahasa Inggris I, II, and III. These courses are included in Communal Life Courses because learning English is not
merely about learning the language but also the culture and the valuesbeliefs of people whose language is originated.
B. RELATED RESEARCH REPORTS
This study specifically focuses on the lived experience of English teachers PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
31 regarding their teaching experience in teaching accounting department students.
This study focuses on uncovering teachers’ meaning construction on their lived experiences in relation how to teach accounting department students. One of the
researchers who have done the research on lived experience is Jane Agee. In her research she emphasized the important of listen to
teachers ‘voice. Teachers’ voice in her research is seen as the voice of the marginalized people. She said that
the kind and amount of talk that occurs in a relationship can tell us much about the positioning of two people 1996: p.4. Furthermore she said that the dialogue in
an effective relationship is characterized by listening. According to Burbules as cited by Agee 1996, what matters most in dialogue between a person in a
position of authority and another is hearing that other voice: Listening is an important aspect of legitimate authority, not only as a
way in which one stands to learn something new, but as a concrete relational activity that alters the status
of one’s authority. Listening exhibit respect, interest, and concern for one’s partner. It is a specific
way of enabling another’s voice to be heard. p.33 Agee said that attention to constructions of self and other offers a lens for seeing
the subtle ways in which these constructions shape our lives and our relationships 1996: 4.
Kirk 2004 also did the research on lived experience. In her article, she discussed data from a study of women teachers in Karachi, Pakistan, that present
their alternative perspectives so as to inform educational policy development and to develop more explicitly gendered theories of teaching. She began with a brief
introduction to the positioning of women teachers within the international context of gender, education, and development. She then introduced the study from which
she presented data and the organizing concept of impossible fictions. Using the
