English Syllabus Design for Accounting Department

Abstract

This research entitled “Designing English Syllabus for Accounting Department Economic Faculty of STIE Muhammadiyah Cilacap in Academic Year 2013/2014”. It aimed at: (1) designing an ESP syllabus which appropriate with the students’ and learning needs of Accounting students; (2) finding out the appropriateness of the designed syllabus with the students’ and learning’s needs. This research was classified in Research and Development with ADDIE model. The designed syllabus uses English for Specific Purposes as the approach in designing syllabus. The type of syllabus is Competencebased syllabus. This syllabus consists of six chapters that were designed based on the result of need analysis. This research found that the designed syllabus was appropriate with the students and learning needs based on (1) the ELT expert judgment stated that the designed syllabus matched with the theory of ESP and syllabus design; (2) the Focus Group Discussion from English lecturer and Accounting lecturer resulted that the syllabus was recommended to be applied as the basic of teaching and learning English; (3) the test resulted that pre-test < post-test in every cycle. It can be concluded that the designed syllabus was appropriate with the students and learning needs.