This research was aimed to answer questions of how How is the strategy
of teaching and learning English for tourism, how is the material used in teaching
English and how is students difficulties in learning English at National Tourism
Academic Banjarmasin.
This research is conducted with descriptive qualitative designed by miles
and Huberman. The participants of this research involved First, third and fifth
semester students and an English Lecturer of Speaking course at National Tourism
Academic Banjarmasin. The data were collected through observation,
interview,and documentary, it was analysed in three steps of data analysis: data
condensation (the process of selecting and summarizing the relevant documents),
data display ( show data have been organized and compressed), and drawing and
verification conclusion.
The result showed that teaching strategies and learning English in speaking
course for tourism at National Tourism Academic Banjarmasin are the lecturer
used by lecturing and discussion in teaching the material to students than a role
play. Speaking course only a basic course and the aim of speaking course is only
for help students more confident when speak English. Furthermore, The material
used in speaking course is general English likely obligatory expression, hobby and
interest, nominal sentence, etc. The material used is not related with tourism. In
addition, Students stated that they felt difficulty to make a sentence based on rules
of Grammar. Not only the difficult of learning English, the student felt burnout in
online learning.