English training for the productive age society in Janggalan Kudus

This item is published by Universitas Islam Negeri Sunan Ampel Surabaya

Shofiyuddin, Muh (2016) English training for the productive age society in Janggalan Kudus. In: Proceedings of the International Conference on University-Community Engagement, 2 – 5 Agustus 2016, Surabaya – Indonesia.

Preview

Text
Muh Shofiyuddin.pdf
Download (313kB) | Preview

Abstract

In facing globalization and ASEAN Economic Community, English is urgent to be used in working necessity in Indonesia. That’s why the writer tried to find the way how to help people in meeting this urgency. Then the writer hold such effective English course for those who are in 18-25 years old in Janggalan Kota Kudus. The course is aimed at: (1) providing English training to the people concerned to meet the demands of employment; (2) helping to improve human resources in Janggalan; (3) driving the spirit of productive age community in Janggalan to work harder; (4) starting English training implementation for free in Janggalan, and (5) being a community engagement program. The course’s learning process is by using 30% speaking, 30% writing, 20% listening and 20% reading with 50% English language using in teaching. This program has been proved quite effective. The participants who were almost totally unable to understand and use English, at the end they could obtain an average score of 66.33. Although it is not too high, it shows conclusion that they are capable enough to understand and use English after joining the program. This program is very useful to help people in productive working age to master English in order to get a proper job so as to help the government in reducing unemployments.