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Firstly, meaning-focused input deals with two receptive skills, which are listening and reading. The way the teacher apply this strand is by letting the
learners understand and gain knowledge from what they get through listening and reading section. Extensive reading, shared reading, listening to stories, watching
media, and being a listener in a conversation become some alternatives activities in this strand. Secondly, meaning-focused output is basically dealing with
productive skills through speaking and writing. Having got enough knowledge and input in the first strand should have made the learners be able to produce
something. Some alternative activities can be talking in conversations, classroom English use, making requests, writing a note to someone, keeping a diary, telling a
story, and telling someone how to do something. Thirdly, in language-focused learning, the learners pay attention to the
language features, such as pronunciation, spelling, vocabulary, grammar and discourse. One feature that shows the learners successfully pass this strand is that
the learners focus on systematic aspects of the language. This will make them fluent through both receptive and productive skills. Fourthly, in fluency
development, the learners are demanded to be more fluent applying English through more challenging activities. The alternative activities are speed reading,
skimming and scanning, repeated reading, repeated retelling, games, and listening to easy stories.
By looking at the importance of each strand, it is crucial to balance the strands. The success of one strand should be supported by the success of the other
strands. Therefore, when the learners are successful in each strand, as a result, it is PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
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possible to have their English proficiency well-gained. As this is the basic of an ideal language course, therefore, integrating four English skills becomes a suitable
decision, moreover when it is supported by the language focus implementation and fluency development.
3. Wedding Organizer
The target of this research is the wedding organizers due to their need of English, particularly when dealing with foreign clients. As Masyarakat Ekonomi
ASEAN MEA or ASEAN Economic Community AEC has lasted since 2015, wedding organizers as a part of other workers has probability to have foreigners as
their clients. That is why English mastery is needed to build an equal understanding with the foreign clients. According to Pramudyo 2014, having
other languages mastery, especially English, is needed to be a breakthrough toward MEA p. 97. Whereas, the need of English mastery for employment field
is stated by British Council 2013 that “for developing and emerging economies, there is enormous demand and need for English in public education systems to
boost staibility, employability, and prosperity” p. 3. In other words, English expedites advancement and international development. Furthermore, wedding
organizers are parts of human resources and labor whose quality needs to be improved as they will compete with other parties Pramudyo, 2014: 92. One way
to be concerned about the quality improvement is on English language mastery. In wedding organization that involves foreign clients, having meeting with
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communication since both foreign clients and wedding organizers are engaged in a discussion about wedding plan until wedding execution. Furthermore, starting
from conducting the need analysis up to the implementation of the materials, the researcher asked for help from some wedding organize
rs. As the researcher’s basic knowledge to design the materials, the followings sections can bring an
enlightenment for choosing any appropriate and related materials to the wedding organizer itself. The sections are divided into: a wedding organizer profile and
b wedding vendors.
a. Wedding Organizer Profile
Like common event organizer, wedding organizer is one kind of organizer who manage a wedding event starting from defining the concept up to the
implementation. According to Fithrati 2014, “wedding organizer is an
organizing service for planning and preparing a wedding, both from the conceptualization up to the final execution of the reception
” p. 75. The role of wedding organizer here is to help the couple to make the wedding come true. It
will help the couples to manage everything in the wedding organization. Couples who want to make a dream wedding and hire a wedding organizer
usually have reasons behind. The researcher concludes the reasons into five points: 1 time, 2 budget, 3 organized planning, and 4 a confidence booster.
Firstly, since preparing a wedding is a complex thing to do, some couples might sacrifice their time starting from listing the guests coming up to contacting all
related vendors. A wedding organizer can help the couples to save the time in preparing every single thing Lestari: 2005, p. 41; Priandarini: 2007, p. 196;
