The Profile of BEC The Vision and Mission of BEC

b. The Profile of BEC

BEC is known as an Islamic English course in Indonesia. It is popular enough so that it had already had about 12,000 alumni from various towns in Indonesia. This course is located at a small district named Pare which is about 30 kilometers in the north east of Kediri Regency, East Java. The exact address is Anyelir Street 8, Pelem, Pare, Kediri, East Java, P. O. BOX 146. The phone number is at 0354 392987. This address is truly the place where the founding father, i.e. Kallend Osein, and his family live. Because of the existence, Pare — that was a lonely place —is then to be an English studying center. More than twenty English courses established by the graduates of BEC there. That is why the small district was amazingly visited by many people every year to study English intensively at the English courses. This automatically makes the economics of Pare increased. Among the English courses, BEC is the most popular one according to the respondents filling in the observation check-list distributed by the writer. Wahani 2001: 6 regarded it as one of the largest English courses in Kediri even in East Java.

c. The Vision and Mission of BEC

According to Mr. Kallend, as the director of BEC, the main vision of BEC is that the students were educated to be good Muslims who able to speak English fluently. To make the vision true, BEC had some missions. The main mission of BEC is to teach the students how to communicate in English. The parameter of successful teaching is when the students able to understand and perpustakaan.uns.ac.id commit to user reply what the foreigners speaking English said. Therefore, BEC focused on teaching General English GE. As the consequence, the students of BEC were much expected to be able to learn English for Specific Purposes ESP themselves by mastering General English first Muniroh, 2001: 59. This is what the name of the course Basic English Course meant. In practice, the teaching of English speaking skill is given 80 at BEC —while the theory taught only 20. This was because most of the students of BEC were the graduates of Senior High School who are supposed to have been taught about the basic grammar. That BEC is English speaking area is proved by the existence of English speaking program at BEC area every evening and night. This program is out of the formal class determined by the teachers. While the other skills —such as listening, reading, and writing —and the theories consisting of grammar and pronunciation were only 20 of all materials taught at BEC. This is indeed the reflection of the mentioned main mission. The other mission of BEC was to educate the students how to be good Muslims. This mission realized by obligating the female students to wear veil. This obligation was applied for the first time to the female students of TC 18 in 1987. The historical background is when a painful incident happened at Surabaya then. The incident was about a female student that was dropped out of a certain school because she wore veil as her uniform. This incident motivated the director of BEC, Mr. Kallend Osein, to spread Islamic doctrines written in Holy Qur‘an— exactly in the 31st verse of Surah An- Nur The Noble Qur‘an, 1996: 703: ―And tell the believing women to lower their gaze from looking at forbidden things, perpustakaan.uns.ac.id commit to user and protect their private parts from illegal sexual acts and not to show off their adornment except that which is apparent like both eyes for necessity to see the way, or outer palms of hands or one eye or dress like veil, gloves, head-cover, apron —this is still debatable, and to draw their veils all over juyūbihinna i.e. their bodies, faces, necks and bosoms —this is still debatable and not to reveal their adornment except to their husbands, or the ir fathers, or their husband‘s fathers, or their sons, or their husband‘s sons, or their brothers, or their brother‘s sons, or their sister‘s sons, or their Muslim women i.e. their sisters in Islam, or the female slaves whom their right hands possess, or old male servants who lack vigor, or small children who have no sense of feminine sex. And let them not stamp their feet so as to reveal what they hide of their adornment. And all of your beg Allah to forgive you all. O believers, that you may be succe ssful.‖ The other verse whose meaning is the same with the verse is in the 59th of Surah Al-Ahzab. The other Islamic doctrine taught at BEC was about brotherhood among Muslims from various ethnic groups. The director said that language i.e. English could be a means of strengthening the brotherhood. On the other hand, a language could not be learned well without brotherhood among the language speakers. The brotherhood was tried to be weaved between the teachers and the students and also among the students themselves by holding some familiarity programs such as Farewell Party that was held once in three-month period, Reunion Program that was truly popular as halal bihalal —i.e. asking and giving forgiveness at the end of the fasting month in Indonesian Islamic world Echols and Shadily, 1989: 202, perpustakaan.uns.ac.id commit to user Travelling to Borobudur Temple for TC students in the last period of learning and Meeting Program held every week.

d. The Syllabus and Curriculum of BEC