The Mastery of the English Language in Reducing Cultural and Communication Barriers in the Tourism World

DOI

10.2991/atf-16.2016.90How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Mastering, cultural differences, misunderstanding, communication barriers.

Abstract

This study aims at giving some thoughts that cultural differences influence a great deal in English communication. This research is limited to a brief theoretical background of the importance of mastering the English language and how cultural and communication barriers can be reduced. The data of this research were taken from English novels and their translations in Indonesian, and from students in real situation at hospitality institution, Bandung Tourism Higher Education. In this research some thoughts of English and Indonesian linguists are compared. In Indonesia Misunderstandings frequently take place in any situations especially in understanding written English, for examples: The problems for Indonesian students lie on understanding the meaning of English Progressive in the first place, and interpreting Indonesian Progressive sentences into English. Other English constructions such as Simple Present, Simple Past, Present or Past Perfect Simple have no problem in translating into Indonesian. Cultural differences also make barriers in communication. That is why it is important to solve the problem to avoid misunderstanding. The author's contributions to this problem are as follows: explaining the importance of mastering English, teaching culture differences between English and Indonesian, and investigating English progressive correspondences in Indonesian to limit misunderstanding

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© 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

Open Access

This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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