The Mastery of and Strategies for Understanding the Idiomatic Expressions Applied by the Students of Hospitality and Tourism

ABSTRACT

The present study aimed at exploring the level of idiomatic expressions mastery, the strategies for understanding them, the obstacles, English skills and functional English that the students of Hospitality and Tourism Institutes need. The study applied mixed-methods. Data were collected with Needs-analysis, Document, Test, and Interview analyzed with descriptive statistics and qualitative. It indicates that the mastery of idiomatic expressions mastery of the students of Hospitality and Tourism is “Low”, no idiomatic expressions teaching, lack familiarity with strategies for understanding idiomatic expressions, the priority English skills include Speaking, Listening, Writing, and Reading; and the primary Functional English needed are General Conversations, Providing Services, Giving information Offering Help and Asking for Co-operation. Therefore, the Hospitality and Tourism educations should improve the quality of the English language teaching.

KEYWORDS:

• Tourism
• hospitality
• idiomatic expressions
• ESP
• functional English

Acknowledgments

We are so grateful to the Rector of the University of Mataram Lombok Indonesia funding the present study. Many thanks also go to the students of the tourism institutes in West Nusa Tenggara Province.

Additional information

Funding

This work was supported by the Universitas Mataram (2018).