Anwar Rahman, Basuki Wibawa, Syarif Sumantri
The development of the global tourism industry is rapidly making the importance of English communication skills a priority in the tourism workplace. State Polytechnic of Lampung has provided English subjects 1, 2, and 3 for its students. Unfortunately, the implementation does not give a significant contribution to improve students' English communication skills. The English instructional materials do not fulfil students' needs and stakeholders' needs inspiring a review of English instructional materials through a new concept of developing English material for tourism with a brain-based approach. The brain-based learning approach has a significant contribution to how instructional English learning was designed to achieve the effectiveness of learning results. This paper aims to present a new concept of developing an electronic module or e-module of English for tourism based on the brain-based learning approach. The development of this e-module applies the research and development (R&D) model of Dick and Carrey and Hardiman Meriale Model. The result of this paper is a concept of developing an e-module of English for tourism with a brain-based learning approach that focuses on four skills of English for communication namely speaking, listening, reading and writing skills. © 2019 Primrose Hall Publishing Group.
Department of Economic and Business, State Polytechnic of Lampung, Indonesia; Departement Post Graduate Educational Technology, State University of Jakarta, Indonesia; Departement Post Graduate Elementary Education, State University of Jakarta, Indonesia
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