LINGUISTICS COMPETENCE FOR DEVELOPING STUDENTS’ OUTCOMES AT A COLLEGE: SURVEY APPROACH

Abstract

Most English educators tend to teach students based on how to make the class will be effective and the students will be creative. The president’s regulation at number 08 on 2012 about Indonesianqualification framework has impacted for the curriculum standard and also has impacted to the process of managing on every program. The standard curriculum must be suitable based on the global market and based on students’ need when they graduate at their college. Lado states (1964: 23) language and teacher should be self-evident that linguistics provides the description of the sounds, words, and sentences. He must teach and helps him to understand the linguistic problems of his students. The focus problems are; 1) How linguistics can develop integrated skills; 2) How linguistics carries students’ learning outcomes? The research is qualitative research, and the ethnography based on phenomenology approach is used as the methodology. The result product is; how the research can produce new design of material study where integrated skills can be combined by learning linguistics. The ethnography research will be done by comprehending deeply about student’s culture aspects through on phenomenology or natural settings especially on what the researcher has observed and seen to the field research. The researcher will take the data based on deep observation; deep interview and will take the data based to the object of the documentation from the research field. This research is done by collecting the same data sources, selecting the different data sources, and measuring the capability of students’ linguistics byunderstanding their activities in the class room when they do assignments then researcher will observe the student’s result products The subject of the research is students in the first and second semester. The instrument uses camera, video and field note, the period of the research is more than one year, and the analysis uses descriptive analysis supported by statistic data then finally produces data validity. Temporary, this research can be concluded that; 1) Integrated skills need enrichment of linguistics and students have to comprehend the basic of linguistics before they develop their integrated skills; 2) Integrated skills competence need linguistics knowledge to improve on how to get the students’ outcomes. The students will be ready if they graduate from higher education or College. They will be easy to get a job and they can compete to other competitors from different background of college.