Why
We Should Master All The English Skills To face ASEAN Economic Community 2015
2.1
The Importance of English…………………………………………………...4
2.2
ASEAN Economic Community 2015……………………………….………8
2.3
The Role of English in ASEAN Economic Community 2015…………...9
2.4 The positive and Negative Points
of Using English in AEC 2015…….....10
Conclusion………………………………………………………………………....12
References………………………………………………………………………....13
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WHY WE SHOULD MASTER ALL THE ENGLISH
SKILLS TO FACE ASEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY 2015
2.1 The Importance of English
In today’s global world, the importance of English can not
be denied and ignored since English is the most common language spoken everywhere.
With the help of developing technology, English has been playing a major role
in many sectors including medicine, engineering, and education, which, in my
opinion, is the most important arena where English is needed. This can merely
be based on the efficiency of tertiary education. Consequently, English should
be the medium of instruction at universities in Indonesia for the following
three reasons: finding a high-quality job, communicating with the international
world, and accessing scientific sources in the student’s major field.
The
first reason for why English should be the medium of instruction at
universities in Indonesia is it helps students to find a high quality jobs for
students. In business life, the most important common language is obviously
English. In addition to this, especially, high-quality jobs need good
understanding ability and speaking in English. Therefore, companies can
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easily
open out to other countries, and these companies generally employ
graduates
whose English is fluent and orderly. For example, the student who is graduated
from a university which takes English as a major language will find a better or
high-quality job than other students who don’t know English adequately. In
other words, the student who knows English is able to be more efficient in his
job because he can use the information from foreign sources and web sites. He
can prepare his assignments and tasks with the help of these information.
Therefore, undoubtedly, his managers would like his effort or prepared
projects. In addition, many high-quality jobs are related with international
communication and world-wide data sharing. University graduates who are in a
international company and business are needed to communicate with foreign
workers. For instance, if their managers want them to share the company’s data,
they are expected to know English. Moreover, they will even have to go business
trip for their company. Absolutely, all of these depend on speaking English: as
a result, new graduates have to know English in order to get a high-quality
job, and the others, who don’t know English, may have lack of communication and
be paid less money.
The
second and the most important reason, for English to be the medium of
instruction in the Indonesian higher education system is it enables
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students
to communicate with the international world. In these days, in my opinion, the
most important thing for both university students and graduates is to follow
the development in technology. For this reason, they have to learn common
language. Certainly, they should not lose their interest on communicating with
the world. However, some of the university students can’t obtain English
education in their university. Unfortunately, these people may lose their
communication with worldwide subjects and topics. In short, they will not
communicate foreign people. To prevent these people from lacking of speaking
English, universities’ administration will provide English education to them.
In addition, university students can use some specific hardware and software of
computers with their English to communicate others. For example, the Internet,
which, in my opinion, is the largest source in the world, based on English
knowledge and information. Also, most of the softwares such as “Windows”, “Microsoft
Office”, “Internet Explorer” are written in English firstly, and these programs
are the basic vital things for communication over computer. That is to say,
even in a little research about something, they need these programs and the
Internet to find necessary sources and information.
The
last reason for favoring English as the medium of instruction of Indonesian
universities is it facilitates to access information. All of the
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students
have to do some projects or home works which are related with their field
during the university education. In these projects or home works, they have to
find some information which is connected with their subject. They find sources
from English web sites and books, but they have to replace these data to their
projects. During these process, if they know English, they will not come across
with any difficulty, but if they don’t know, even they may not use these data.
As a result, the student who knows English will be more successful at his/her
project. For this reason, to obstruct possible inequity between students,
management of universities should accept English as a second language in order
to provide accessing information to the students. In short, university students
need to know English to access information.
All
in all, the education in universities should be done with English for three
reasons. First, students who know English are able to find their favourite job
related with their field. Second, they can communicate with others
internationally.
Third,
as a major language in universities, English makes accessing information easy
for students. In my opinion, internationally, people need one common language.
For many years, English has been the common world-
wide
language, and it will be in the future.
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For
this reason, if you want to follow trends, new gadgets and technology,
modernization of the developing world, you have to know English whatever age
you are in.
2.2 ASEAN Economic Community 2015
The purpose
of the ASEAN Economic Community is to improve the economic competitiveness of
ASEAN countries to make ASEAN as a production base not only become the market
of developed countries, such as America, European countries and the countries
of East Asia, as well as attracting investment and improving trade among its
members in order to compete in the face of global challenges, and furthermore
is to reduce poverty and social disparities between member States through a
number of mutually beneficial economic cooperation.
ASEAN as a single market and single production-based,
supported by elements of the free flow of goods, services, investment, labor and
capital flows educated wider. ASEAN as a region with high economic
competitiveness, with elements of competition rules, consumer protection, intellectual
property ha katas, infrastructure development, taxation and e-commerce .ASEAN
as a region of equitable economic development with elements of small and medium
enterprise development, and the ASEAN integration initiative for the State CMLV
(Cambodia, Myanmar, Laos, and
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Vietnam).
ASEAN as a region fully integrated into the global economy with a coherent
approach in the external economic relations in the region and increase
participation in global production networks.
2.3 The role of English in ASEAN
Economic Community 2015
Nowadays, in the global era, communication
has become one of the most crucial elements. Without good communication, people
from different nations won’t be able to understand each other, when people
don’t understand each other, there are possibilities that misunderstanding will
happen. That’s why, good communication among people from different countries is
needed. This situation, where people need to understand each other with good
communication, urges people to acquire global.
English even also used in so many
branches of disciplines such as philosophy,sociology, literature, linguistics,
law, and others. Therefore, by learning English, itwill be easier to acquire
new knowledge. Furthermore, it has also been officially proclaimed by as an
international language which means that in the internationalschool level,
English language is always used as the medium language. In Indonesia For
instance, in RSBI or SBI schools, English is used as the medium for most of the
courses except Bahasa Indonesia course and local language courses such as
Javanese,Balinese and others.
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Since
the members of AEC agree to use English as their communication language,
English plays important role in the process they communicate each other.
English
has become important to be mastered by all the element of the country to
support that program in each country. English really takes effect for AEC 2015,
the residents should need to improve their English skills to compete with other
countries, because it can influence the economy level and competitive. It also
attract more foreign to invest.
Therefore, English is very important for
people who will be facing the entry of the AEC especially to Indonesia. So that
English language lessons in education must be improved in order to compete, and
facing the AEC in Indonesia .
2.4 The Positive and Negative Points
of Using English in ASEAN Economic Community 2015
We
all know ASEAN countries had decided that English is the official language for
ASEAN Economic Community 2015. That
condition compels us to be able to speak English since we are willing to face
AEC 2015.
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ASEAN Economic Community has positive and
negative point. The positive point, we can say, can encourage the development
of the country, because this globalization will give big opportunity to develop
any kinds of sector.
To face this globalization era the first
thing that we can do is to master English because communication is the most
important thing when we build
a relationship between
people. Because English
is the most spoken language that used in every country. So, to keep in track in
this globalization era, understanding
and using English well is a must. When people cannot understand
English, they cannot communicate with foreign people and when they cannot
communicate with foreign people, they cannot have a good relationship and they
cannot face the globalization era.
The fundamental matter that should be prioritised by the
government, Especially in Indonesia in
facing the AEC in 2015 is to improve its orientation towards
education and human resource development. The Government should prioritise, within the next five
years, improving the educational qualifications of its workforce which consists
largely of primary school graduates, to be upgraded to at least a high school
graduate. This is urgently needed so that workers are able to sustain
themselves once the AEC comes
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into effect.
Improving English language lessons, so that they can face the
AEC 2015.
Then, the negative point doesn’t
really become such big issue, through globalization area, there will be more
various culture that will come into Indonesia, we cannot filter it, if we can
keep our originality it will be better, but if we can’t so our own culture will
fade away. If we are able to select the good one, so it will enrich our
culture.
To
solve this negative point, we, especially in Indonesia, have to keep our
culture originality and make it as our unique point, so it can attract
foreigner to come to Indonesia. And also, Indonesia
should gradually improve its scholarship programme for local students and
overseas students, and
implement performance targets to increase the national
number of post-graduate degree holder. With the increase in numbers of workers with
higher educational qualifications through reform in Indonesia education,
Indonesia will become a potentially strong player in the regional and global
workforce sectors. Although the country will face the AEC in 2015 highly
unprepared, I believe that through proper education policy reform, Indonesia
will be able to ride the momentum within the next few years.
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Conclusion
The conclusion is for the ASEAN Economic Community in 2015, English language
is needed to learn, in order to face the era.
In social life, English
is needed to communicate,
especially when many
tourists come to Indonesia
for a vacation, business, and others. when looking
for a job in ASEAN Economic
Community 2015, which is where the all-free would
be easier to get the job.
