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Teaching English Business skills does not merely teach the students to have administration and communication skills needed at the workplace for they will probably encounter and experience working together with people from different cultures and backgrounds as well. To minimize misunderstanding on those intercultural differences, they are expected not only to learn Business English skills but also gain basic knowledge of English culture through the course. This R&D research is a descriptive qualitative research which is intended to develop the Speaking Section of the existing teaching materials of Business English skills. Under the name of ESP I subject, they are taught to the 4th-semester students of Diploma Three in English Program of University of Merdeka Malang as a compulsory subject. In this study, the primary instruments are the researchers themselves and the preliminary questionnaires used serve as the secondary instrument. All the analyzed data are in the form of printed data (questionnaire’s results) and chosen videos taken from YouTube. The expected final results are in the form of written handouts consist of texts and links of selected videos appropriately related to the given topics. It is hoped that they are useful for the students as an alternative method to learn culture in an integrated way.
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References
Aggarwal, R. & Zhan, F. (2018). Course Design Considerations in International Business Education, Journal of Teaching in International Business, 29:4, 267-271, DOI: 10.1080/08975930.2018.1560676
Ary, D. et.al. (2002). Introduction to Research in Education., 6th ed.,. Belmonth, CA: Wadsworth Group/Thomson Learning.
Berg, B.L. (2001). Qualitative Research Methods for Social Sciences. Needham Heights, MA: Pearson Education Company.
Bogdan, R.C. and Biklen, S.K. (2007). Qualitative Research for Education: An Introduction to Theories and Methods. Pearson Education, Inc.
Brown, H. D. (2007). Teaching by Principles: An Interactive Approach to Language Pedagogy. New York: Pearson Education, Inc.
Crawford?Lange, L.M. & Lange, D.L. (1987). Integrating language and
culture: How to do it, Theory into Practice, 26:4, 258-266, DOI: 10.1080/0040584870954328
Gall, M.D., Gall, J.P. and Borg, W.R. (2003). Educational Research. Seventh Edition. Boston: Pearson Education, Inc.
Grave, K. (1996). A Framework of Course Development Process in Grave, K. (Ed.), Teachers as Course Developers, New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
Farani, Y. (2016). The Proposed Culturally Rich Instructional Materials of Integrated Oral Course for The Fifth Semester Students of D3 English Program at University of Merdeka Malang. EnJourMe (English Journal of Merdeka) : Culture, Language, and Teaching of English, 1(1), 1–16. https://doi.org/10.26905/enjourme.v1i1.277
Farani, Y. (2017). ESP Business English: The Proposed Students’ Workbook Used for Teaching Bahasa Inggris Bisnis at D3 Accounting of Economics & Bussiness Faculty at UNMER Malang. EnJourMe (English Journal of Merdeka) : Culture, Language, and Teaching of English, 2(1), 61–71. https://doi.org/10.26905/enjourme.v2i1.631
Jingzi, D., Wenzhong, Z., & Dimond, E. E. (2016). The Integration of Intercultural Business Communication Training and Business English Teaching. English Language Teaching, 9(2), 77–83. https://doi.org/10.5539/elt.v9n2p77
Wang, Z. (2015). An Analysis on the Use of Video Materials in College English Teaching in China. International Journal of English Language Teaching, 2(1), 23–28. https://doi.org/10.5430/ijelt.v2n1p23