ESP for vocational school students: Collective Collaboration Model (CCM) course revitalisation

Abstract

This paper aims at discussing a deep thought of revitalizing English subject offered to students of vocational schools. It is considered appropriate to expose this idea in this moment since in Indonesia people feel busy of the 2013 curriculum which the government plan to apply beginning this year. Some findings of previous researches inform that English subjects for vocational schools need reformulation in its goals, materials, teaching and learning processes and the teacher professionalism as well. The discussion of this paper will particularly focus on how to revitalize the English courses as English for specific purposes (ESP) subjects through applying 'collective collaboration model: The course development should be a comprehensive process requiring a broad-based view of the specific vocational school system and its place within specific students who study English for their related and planned profession. It seems that the course development will again be a disjointed and a political process which deal with people and their various power bases and their views of what makes for good vocational education. The curriculum as well as the course development of the English subject should be as a result of collaborative works of different stakeholders. They are hopefully working on the design of the English subject on the basis of needs analysis. This paper will mostly address this issue.