Need Analysis on English for Hospitality Students at SMK Negeri 2 Lubuklinggau

Abstract

The research question of this researh was “what were the students needs of English in hospitality major at SMK Negeri 2 Lubuklinggau?”, and the objectives of the research was to describe the students’ need of English in hospitality major at SMK Negeri 2 Lubuklinggau. Therefore, the researchers used descriptive quantitative method which the subject of the research consisted of 100 hospitality students and 4 English teachers at that vocational school.  The subjects were taken through purposive samping. While, the data were collected by questionnaire and interview. The data were analyzed by calculating the percentage of each item ofquestionnaire and data gathered from interview were interprated by the researchers as additional data. After analyzing data, the result of this research were: 1. The students need to learn English to support their future professional career or job  and make a good progress in future career, 2.the students believe that  if  level of English was not good, it  could be caused bad effect ontheir  academic, 3.They needs to increase their English listening and speaking skill, 4. The students believe that listening and speaking were important skill to be learnt in English. 5.The students prefer to learn with a group work and kind of variety games, role play and practice, 6.The students prefer to learn with a group for classroom interaction pattern, 7.The students need a teacher as guide and facilitator, 8. The students prefer to choose more actively participating and involved a lot of learning activities 9. They hope teachers can make learning process more interesting. Furthermore, data from teachers showed that: 1. English language teaching should focus and balance between accurancy and fluency, 2. The teachers should be the students’ facilitator in teaching and learning process needs, 3. The teachers should use role play, game and some interesting activities in English learning. 4. The teachers should adopt a modern teaching method, 5. The teachers should allow the students to learn with a struggle way to communicate in English, 6.communicative language teaching is the best approach to teach hopsitality students, 7. The teachers should develop and should be focus on developing all four skills.

Keywords: Need Analysis, Students’ Need, Hospitality, Vocational High School