Utilizing Translanguaging in teaching ESP for Culinary Art Students in Indonesia

Abstract

Translanguaging is a pedagogical strategy that can be used to assist students in understanding material in the classroom and this strategy plays an important role for teachers in conducting class of English for specific purposes (ESP) in culinary art classroom. The study was conducted to examine the Translanguaging utilization in teaching ESP for culinary art students and find out the challenges and effort that teachers have in the classroom. The research used a case study in a culinary art classroom and descriptive analysis to analyze data that has been collected through classroom observation and interview to a teacher and 15 students. The result explained that utilizing translanguaging in the classroom raise student’s understanding about the material given, because students can use the home language (L1) to understand the context and elaborate to the target language. In other side, the utilizing Translanguaging invites teachers to let students’ use home language in the target language but it against to the teachings’ policy of the school. In line with the case, the teacher provided the material and please them to understand the context through home language and present it through target language. Finally, the Translanguaging as pedagogical strategy can be utilized to assist students in understanding English as specific purposes for culinary art classroom in Indonesia.