Vocational School Students’ Perspectives on ESP

Abstract

The goal of this study was to find out vocational school students’ thoughts on English language teaching and learning process held in their school and the extent to what components of that process that should be changed. This was a qualitative descriptive study activity which employed a set of questionnaire on students’ thoughts on English teaching and learning as the intrument to collect the data. There were 154 SMK Purworejo Negeri 1, they are student of grade 11 and 12 studying automotive, engaged as the respondents in this survey. The results of the data analysis revealed that most of the students’ opinions toward the process of English teaching and learning was good even if to same extents certain elements still needed to be improved.