PERANCANGAN SILABUS BAHASA INGGRIS UNTUK TUJUAN KHUSUS MELALUI ANALISIS KEBUTUHAN MAHASISWA HOSPITALITY DI POLIKTEKNIK PARIWISATA MAKASSAR = DESIGNING ENGLISH FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSE SYLLABUS THROUGH HOSPITALITY STUDENTS’ NEED ANALYSIS AT MAKASSAR TOURISM POLYTECHNIC

MUHAMMAD CHAIRUL ARIS. F022202009. Designing English for specific purpose syllabus through Hospitality Students’ need analysis at Makassar Tourism Polytechnic (Supervised by Noer Jihad Saleh and Nasmilah)
Many professionals need to have skills which could help them to communicate with their work partners especially in reading, writing and speaking to obtain information in English to enhance their job performance. In fact, in the last several decades, there has been an increasing need to use English Language for the expression of knowledge within specific professional fields. This study aims to find out the needs of Hospitality department students in learning English at Makassar Tourism Polytechnic and to design the syllabus after the need assessment. The study involves 40 students as its population. A mixed method of quantitative and qualitative paradigms is applied by giving questionnaires to students and semi-structured interview to the students and lecturer to support the answers to the research questions. The result showed that the students need English material that support their communicative competence. Therefore a syllabus was designed by prioritizing speaking as the main course in order to enable students to communiate with the guest from foreign countries. This is not only for communicative purposes but also to prepare students to get job in hospitality industries. The syllabus design as the output of this study covers hospitality-related topics, grammar items and variety of learning activities that engaged students’ interest in classroom.

Keywords: Need Analysis, Hospitality Students’ Need, Syllabus Design, English for Specific Purpose