Enhancing Students’ Vocabulary Through English Business Meeting Simulation in ESP Setting  

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Dalam koleksi: The 62st TEFLIN International Conference: Teaching and Assessing L2 Learners in the 21st Century, Denpasar, 14-16th September 2015, Book 2, page 865-872.
Topik: enhancing vocabulary; business meeting simulation; ESP setting
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State Polytechnic of Malang is a vocational institution having a commitment to produce competent graduates ready to compete in global world. English as one of the competences necessary for students’ future is allotted in the instructional process. The English instruction objective is to provide students with more practices close to their real-life situation setting. Learning by doing, then, serves as a basis of the English instruction approach. Simulation as an instructional method is believed to be closely related to the real life situation. The objective of applying simulation in English class is providing learners an opportunity to employ their English in real context. Vocabulary as an essential element of language can also be explored optimally through simulation in ESP class setting.This paper is based on classroom action research discussing about to what extent the students’ vocabulary acquisition is enhanced through the implementation of Business Meeting simulation in Business Administration Department, State Polytechnic of Malang. The subjects were those ofthe second grade students taking “Business English II” classes.The intended vocabulary to acquire deals with expressions of starting meeting/presentation, organizing points, and closing presentation.In the meantime, the topics to dicuss were company knowledge, product knowledge,market research andadvertisement.The result of the study indicates that there is better improvement in the students’ vocabulary acquisition in the form of written and spoken communication. The findingsshow that the students’ scores both in written and spoken test have improved even though the enhancement does not boost very highly

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