Perfect Aspect Progressive Aspect
40 Nevertheless, it does not merely make all universities provide sufficient credit unit
for English as an academic course. For non-English major study programs, English course is only given in two or four credit units and it seems that it does
not help those students much to improve their English proficiency level. Musthafa 2009 argues that small credit units for English course in university is not making
any difference for the university students because they have been exposed to English for some 736 hours in Junior and Senior high school yet it does not seem
that those university students are well equipped to make themselves able to read textbook in English.
English as Foreign Language EFL learners refers to the non-native English language learners who study English in their own countries. They study
English in a non-English environment in which the English language is not commonly spoken outside the classroom. Fernandez 2012 as cited in Nordquist
2015, states that ESL and EFL are different in terms of the medium of instruction used in education and in government. In ESL, the medium of
instructions in education and government is in English even though English is not their native language. On the other hand, in EFL environment the medium of
instruction in education and government are in learners’ native languages. English is only taught in the classrooms and it is not completely used during teaching-
learning processes in classrooms. According to Kachru’s concentric circle, Indonesia belongs to the group of
expanding circle countries in which the countries do not have any history on English colonialization at the past yet at the present time the English language has
become number one international language in Indonesia. Given that fact, EFL
41 learners need more exposures of English since they do not have the English
exposures in their daily life except in the classroom.