English for Tourism Electronic Module has been designed to improve students proficiency in English for tourism. It is based on hypermedia which complemented by video and audio link that can be used in the class or outside of the class. It can be supplementary teaching material for English for tourism that can be accessed by both teacher and students through personal computer or android gadget. The focus of this electronic module is on four skills of language; listening, speaking, reading and writing. In addition, it also discusses some important language usage and grammar topics and also vocabularies which frequently used in the tourism communication activities. Therefore the teacher has to pay attention how to use the English for tourism electronic module on line class or in the class to achieve effective, efficient and enjoyable English learning process.
Listening Activities
Listening activities consists of dialogues or conversation that delivered by native or local teachers. Some students get difficulties in listening native speakers because of its speed, pronunciation, accent, and intonation. To prevent some problems in listening activities, the teacher has to suggest the students to have a good sound system in their android gadget. In the class room, the teacher have to provide a good active speaker in the class room and internet connection in personal computer.
The video and audio files has been adapted and can be accessed through YouTube and downloaded. The teacher can choose and play the video and audio file that correspond to listening activities.
Speaking Activities
Speaking activities provides some video and audio conversations followed by the conversation text. Both could be considered as a model English for tourism communication. Therefore students will have some experiences to practice the dialogues in the unit and may scaffold them with their own languages. It is suggested that the teacher ought to give a model of conversation practice to initiate students understanding in practicing their own dialogues in the form of a role play, pair work or group work speaking activities.
Reading Activities
Reading activities consist of tourism texts such as brochures, maps, news, letter, announcement, and catalogues of tourism products. Reading activities in this module encourage students to improve their comprehension in reading dealing with tourism texts. Teachers may start the reading activity by checking student’s vocabularies enrichments then followed by understanding main idea. It would be much more interesting reading activities if the teacher executes some reading techniques for example scanning, skimming, reading speed, jig show reading, reading comprehension quizzes and reading aloud. It is better to suggest the students to have some further reading comprehension activities by exploring links which suggested in the module.
Writing Activities
Writing activities give students to have writing activities dealing with tourism writing activities. The teacher may start with understanding how to make simple sentences will help student to make personal massages, email and report. Next the comprehension of the structures of complete massages, email or reports will make students easy to have writing activities. Finally, students have to practice writing an email, brochure, notice and short description of tourism destination that might be sent to the teacher or friends as further writing activities.
Language Usage
Language usage could be considered as important activities in the electronic module which discuss about useful expression and grammar usage. Understanding communication expression and grammar usage that frequently used in tourism conversation activity is needed. Expressing some conversation ideas with correct language usage and grammar will minimize misunderstanding in tourism communication activities. Teacher does not need to explain very detail about the grammar that would be confusing. It is suggested to use the grammar communicatively which more useful compare to detail grammar discussion in classroom. The students also may suggested to explore grammar exercises links in the module.
Vocabularies
Vocabularies enrichment is very important activities that students get new vocabularies which commonly used in tourism conversation. Teachers may introduce the vocabularies by having a vocabularies quizzes or games to encourage students. When students get difficulties about new vocabularies it is suggested that students have to guess the meaning for the first then open online dictionaries or google translate.
Exercises
Exercises materials are optional activities that can be used in the classroom. The teacher may suggest the students to use them to have more English practices. It is suggested that the teacher use the exercises base on topic or activity in the module. Teacher may ask students to download and print the materials to have more effective result of learning activities.
Pre Test and Post Test
The teacher can you pre test to know student proficiency or competences in English for tourism. The score of the pre test can be considered as starting point in learning this module. Post Test has objective to know students proficiency or competences in English for tourism after learning the electronic module. Teacher may know students achievement in learning this module by score comparing the result of pre and post test (gain score).
TOEIC TEST
TOEIC or Test of English for International Communication is to measure students English proficiency in the workplace. The teacher can recommend students to have exercises and free diagnosis online TOEIC test, therefore students will know how well their score in the test. The more students practice and explore TOEIC link the better score they will have.