Needs Analysis of Vocational High School Students Learning to Speak English

This research concerns the target and learning needed by students in speaking English of vocational high school, especially at the hospitality program. Vocational high school is an educational school that provides students the technical skill to complete a specific job. To collect the data, I used instruments, including interview analysis and observation. The participants of this study are students in the hospitality program and English teachers. The result indicates that most of the students learn English for their future careers. In mastering speaking ability, students need to improve several aspects of speaking: pronunciation, grammar, and vocabulary. Besides, in learning to speak English, students often face many difficulties: lack of vocabulary, lack of motivation, and mother tongue. To overcome those difficulties, students try to write a new vocabulary and try to pronounce the correct words. In addition, in the learning and teaching process teacher used various techniques to increase students’ motivation in learning; the teacher also often related the material based on students’ need.Roudhatul Jannah

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