electronics engineering. The education background of the English teacher is Bachelor’s Degree S1, and she has teaching experience for approximately 6-10
years. The education background of the practical teacher of industrial electronics engineering is S1 bachelor’s degree, and he has teaching experience for
approximately 16 – 20 years .
The education background of the graduates are vocational high school majoring in industrial electronics engineering, and they
have working experience for approximately 1 – 5 years in an industrial electronics fieldcompany in Indonesia.
4.1.2 Data Presentation and Analysis
Based on
Kurikulum Tingkat Satuan Pendidikan School-Based
Curriculum, there was a competence standard and seven basic competence for XI Grade students of vocational high school. The competence standard and the seven
basic competences are as follows:
Competence Standard
Basic Competence
2.1 Understanding simple daily conversation both in personal and professional context with non native
speaker. 2.2 Taking a note of simple messages both in face to face
conversation and through tools. 2.3 Describing own job description and education
background both in written and oral form. 2.4 Telling about own past job and the plans of the future
one. Communicate using
English Language at Elementary level
2.5 Express willingness PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
Table 4.2: Competence Standard and Basic Competence for XI Grade Students of Vocational High School.
There were some participants in the needs analysis. Each of them was interviewed in order to obtain the needs data. The questions might be different
from other participants based on the needs. According to the English teacher, the English materials taught in
vocational high school are the same as those in senior high school, meaning that there are no specificparticular materials for vocational high school in order to
support the students in learning based on the subject matter they are learningconcerned with. In her opinion, it would be much better if the materials
used for vocational high school students are specific to the matter that the students are learning in each department. Also, she suggests that all the topics should not
totally focus on the matters the students are concerned with, rather that there are supplementary general topics. This aims to avoid students’ fatigue.
The English materials provided in the book reference, that is New Interchange by Jack C. Richards includes the integration of four skills – listening,
speaking, reading, and writing, yet, in the real teaching implementation in the class, the teacher mostly used merely 2 skills. They were speaking and writing,
while listening and reading were rarely taught. It was such burden to teach
Competence Standard
Basic Competence
2.6 Understanding simple instructions 2.7 Making short messages, instructions, and lists using
correct writing rules. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
