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example, if we have selected to a court to study reporter, there is not much outside this career for which we are qualified. A college degree, however, it serves a number
of career in a field as liberal arts, business, or political science qualify. It is a difficult decision to make the decision between vocational school and a traditional college.
However, by evaluating your professional goals, you should be able, the right choice for your future.
c. English in a Vocational High School
English has a role as a tool to communicate all around the world and as a global language. Therefore, in this global era, mastering English is very important for
gaining success. To comprehend English well, it can be done through undertaking the educational field. In many countries, especially in Indonesia, English is taught as an
obligatory subject since the students have to pass English test in the final exam. Accordingly, there can be found several differences of teaching English in
vocational high school and senior high school. Teaching English in vocational high school should refer to the program of study of students who are being taught. The
English teachers of vocational high school have to teach about the language of English that has
close relation to the students’ major. For instance, for students who have stream in tourism, the teacher does not only give the explanation, but also
example of expressions of handling guests to hotel accommodation. Moreover, the teacher gives information about the expression of English about the special terms that
are used by students in tourism. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
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4. Concept of Lived Experience
Van M anen 1990, p. 9 states that “phenomenological research is the study of
lived experience”. He also argues that lived experience is the important field of the phenomenological human science, it is the starting and end point of this research
Van Mannen, 1990, p. 36. As the center of the reflection, lived experience takes the value of experience and uses it as mirror to develop ourselves Van Mannen, 1990, p.
77. Studying experience, interpreting and reflecting the essence of experience is the main point that has to be done in this study.
According to Manen 1990, p. 25, the terms hermeneutics phenomenology has its meaning. Phenomenology is a pure description of lived experience, while
hermeneutics is the interpretation of experience by using the form of text. In addition, Mannen 1990, p. 36 also argues that phenomenology aims to transform the lived
experience into a textual expression of its essence. The effect of this text gives reflexive re-living and a reflective appropriation of something which is meaningful to
somebody. Therefore, the reflection of lived experience is re-collective. It is the reflection on experience that is already passed.
This research used hermeneutics phenomenology as the method. Moustakas 1994, p. 9 states that hermeneutics is the art of interpreting. It aims to reveal the
truth by identifying it. It is the philosophy in the original sense of world, the love of wisdom, the search for as comprehensive an understanding of human existence as
possible Moustakas, 1994, p. 9. The researcher engages in pedagogic reflection on how we live with educational actors. The educational actors are students, teachers,
counselors, and parents. In this research, the focus is on the students’ lived
