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……………………………….…………5

2.3 The Role of English in ASEAN Economic Community 2015………….…...7

2.4 The positive and Negative Points of Using English in AEC 2015………....9

Conclusion…………………………………………………………………………12

References…………………………………………………………………………..

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WHY WE SHOULD MASTER ALL THE ENGLISH SKILLS TO FACE ASEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY 2015

2.1 The Importance of English

            English is an official language which is used to communicate by people around the world. By mastering English people can access all informations since English is used for everything. If they don’t master English, they will have difficulty in getting informations since everything provided in English version.

           

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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-commerse .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 Vietnam) .

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  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.

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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 thecourses 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 .

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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.

      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.

       

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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 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.

     

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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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1.2 Problems

The problems of this paper are:

Ø  Why we should master all the English skills for ASEAN Economic Community 2015?

Ø  What are the positive and negative points of using English in ASEAN Economic Community 2015?

1.3 Objectives

      To tell about the reasons why we should master all the English skills for ASEAN Economic Community 2015

      To explain the positive and negative points of using English in ASEAN Economic Community 2015