Ummi Kulsum 12121320261 “Exploring English for Specific Purposes Listening
Material Through Competency Perspective
This research find out ESP listening material through competency perspective. It
is conducted in order to find out and analysed listening materials through competency
based on syllabus that has created by lecturer. In the current curriculum which is
labelled as ‘Competency-Based’, requires that students’ success in learning
judged in terms of the appropriateness of competence they have achieved. In the
case of ELT, competence is not a new issue, since both language learning and
acquisition have been concentrated on the learners’ ability to perform these
language competences.
The aim of the research is to know how the lecturer select listening
materials, whether appropriate or not between objectives and learning outcomes,
or to know the relevancy of listening materials used by the lecturer to expected
competencies. The most important problem comes from the teacher should be
experts in the language and language teaching and are not required to have
specialized subject knowledge.
The method of this research is qualitative research, exactly case study
research. Because this research focus on investigated a single individual in
English Language Teaching. For the techniques of collecting data are interview
and document analysis, because researcher should interview to completed the data
and to know deeply how the lecturer select listening materials and researcher
should analysed the document and compare with the result of field research. This
awareness can be reflected on teacher’s learning compatible based on syllabus
design especially in listening at workplace course syllabus as the English
Language Teaching.
The findings of the research are (1) the result of lecturer selected in
listening material are adopted from course book as the source that used by lecture,
the researcher find out some topic discussions which included in syllabus design,
include: a company visit, job information, presentation, meetings, entertaining and
socialising, travel and emailing. For all topic discussions are expected in learning
process especially for the subject listening at workplace. For created the materials,
a lecturer recognized through structures, function, situations, and topics. (2) The
relevance listening material to expected competencies based on syllabus design is
from macroskills theory point two, point three and also point four. It is also clear
that to measure a competency based on the skill can be used, because the skill one
of supporting important element includes in competency or it can be said that skill
is one of element to build the competency.
Keywords: English for Specific Purposes, Listening Material, Competency
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