BACKGROUND OF STUDY INTRODUCTION

5 arranged and approved by the government as stated in the policies and known as national curriculum. Anyway, the department is given its autonomy to arrange the teaching method, the material, and the arrangement of the teaching. All those things are well arranged in the syllabus. Therefore, the syllabus of every department or higher education might be different. The selection of the topic is closely related to the materials and it will build the type of the syllabus. The type of the syllabus offers the choices of the teaching material. For accounting department, we have many options like teaching the grammar, the expressions used, the tasks, or the function of the language. The significant matter is that we have to match the goal of the teaching with the topic, materials, and tasks. Another option for the English teaching is whether we teach English as the content course or not. English for academic purposes offers the teaching in many ways. The content course allows the learner learns the accounting materials using English language. Of course it needs extra energy spent since the teacher must be expert on the accounting field and master English, and also the learners have to spend their extra time leaning accounting field through English. However, the teachers who participate in this research are not content teachers. They are English teachers who teach General English in accounting department. Therefore it is interesting to know how they are dealing with teaching matters which is too general for fulfilling accounting students’ needs. Since the problems related to the teacher and the teaching were quite unique and complex, I am in terested in discovering more about the teacher’s experience in teaching English to accounting department students. The interesting 6 part is that the teacher must master the accounting field and English language. Whether this phenomenon is right or not, it will be answered in this study. The teacher’s lived experience became the focus of this study, so I intended to look deeper about the experiences that were meaningful to the teacher. I will try to get information on the whole experience in teaching.

C. PROBLEM LIMITATION

Considering that there were so many aspects related to the while the writer’s time, ability, and fund were limited, the writer limited the problem of the research only to the teacher’s lived experience. Since this research is on teacher’s lived experience, there are two participants in this study, who are the English teachers. The purpose of the study is to tell the shared lived experience of the teacher on teaching English to Accounting students. The study of the lived experience was related to the experience of the participants and in this case was the experience in teaching English to accounting department students. So, the experience elaborated as the answer of the research questions later was limited on the experience of the year or years passed by the teacher in teaching English to accounting students. Conducting in-depth interviews with the teachers are very important to get the shared lived experience of the teachers.

D. PROBLEM FORMULATION

The English teaching in the study is in the range of classroom situation and learning activity which are conducted mostly by the teachers. The teachers ’ lived PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI 7 experience is seen from the teachers ’ action in teaching English to their Accounting department students. Lived experience is what people do after having certain understanding, belief, feeling, and intention. In this case, the context of the action is teaching English to accounting students. Therefore, the problem question of this research addresses the following question: What is the meaning of teaching English in the accounting department to the teachers?

E. RESEARCH GOAL

The research goal is based on the problem formulation above. The goal is to describe and interpret teachers’ meaningful lived experience in teaching English to the Accounting students department. The description and interpretation provides a significant understanding of the nature of teaching English to accounting department students. It can also enrich participants to be more reflective and self-actualized, as well as audiences in having an emphatic understanding and equity regarding teaching English to accounting department students. Doing a reflective description has a chance to develop one’s self- actualization. The texts anecdotes can also provide a productive framework for the participants to consider commitment and dedication toward their own development as professionals and humans. These assumption will help participants, audiences, as well as the researcher to determine the best preference and solution for the same phenomenon. It essentially becomes good references for English teachers in university or college to consider their own teaching method. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI 8

F. RESEARCH BENEFIT

It is expected this research can provide significant contributions for the educational field, especially in teaching learning process. The study provide scientific benefit for professional who are concerned with English education. It helps showing the meaning of the life world of teaching English to accounting department students as lived experience by the participants. The information can increase understanding of English teaching to accounting students. This understanding is also valuable, especially for English Languange Studies and English education science, this research can be the consideration for educational development in teaching English to Accounting students. To the students of English Education, this research can develop English teaching for accounting students in term of English for academic purposes. To the Accounting students, this research can give input for the evaluations and improvements of English teaching at accounting department so the students can achieve more knowledge and understanding. In other words, the result of this study will give contribution to the improvement of English language studies particularly in Indonesia. For practical benefit, it will improve the understanding on the English teaching, especially to accounting department students, the teachers, the researcher and the participants. For the teachers, this research can be a reference especially for other teachers who teach similar students. For the researcher, this research has benefit to better emphatic understanding that leads to the self- actualization. And finally for the participants, the research can be a reflective tool for their own performance. It is hoped that they will commit to their work by being reflective. They will perform more efficiently and productively. It is also PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI