Penerapan Pembelajaran Pbl untuk Meningkatkan Kompetensi Komunikasi Bahasa Inggris Mahasiswa di Akparta Mandala Bakti Surakarta

Mastery of foreign languages, especially English is very important for students, but a monotonous learning model making English communication competence of students cannot develop properly. Therefore, researchers are interested in using learning model Problem Based Learning (PBL) for the improvement of communication skills in English. The purpose of this study is to know how big is the influence of the PBL learning model or Problem Based Learning on improving communication competence (Communicative Competence) English students. The method of this study is descriptive qualitative with 32 samples of AKPARTA Mandala Bakti Surakarta students of 2013/2014 academic year. Based on t-test, the result of the research showed that p = 0.00 and r = 0.939 for p <0.05 then Ho is rejected, that means there is a difference between students‟ English competence before applying PBL model on teaching learning process and after applying PBL model for teaching learning process

English Communicative Competence of Health Vocational High Schools (Case Study at Health Vocational High Schools in Internusa Institution in Central Java)

Indonesia must prepare the high-skill categories needs for every aspects. One of the aspects is the ability to compete in this era, the ability to communicate with other. Indonesian needs English communicative skill to face the Industrial Revolution 4.0. The aims of the study are: understand Vocational High Schools students' English communicative competence and to understand the teaching method on Improving English Communicative competence for Health Vocational High Schools. This research used descriptive qualitative method. The study used a TOEIC Test to know the result of the study and interview the English teachers, the populations of the study are the third grades of Health Vocational High Schools at Internusa Institution in Central Java, there are 552 students from 6 Health Vocational High Schools. The results of the study is the students English Communicative competence is still on score 186-250 (Memorized Proficiency). The teachers have appled many methods to improved the English Communicative competence. most of the applied Discovery Learning Method