What to read after Students’s Book General English in Higher Education?

This book is designed as a students’ handbook for learning the “General English” course in higher education. The course is also called as “Mata Kuliah Umum Bahasa Inggris”. The underlying motive inwriting this book is due to the rarity of teaching material sources in field of General English for University level. The teaching topics are available in this book, are comprehensively arranged accordance to the teaching curriculum of General English course in higher education.

This course is usually taught before taking English Specific Purposes (ESP) for students from any disciplines, which is a compulsory subject. In ESP level, students will learn English with more specific topics based on their fields of study, such as English for accounting, English for communication, nursing, agriculture and so on.

This book presents some basics of English by more emphasizing on the integrated teaching model for speaking, vocabulary, reading, and writing. The goals of this book is to enhance students’ skills in English. Several teaching topics included in this book are as the followings; Greeting Manners, Describing Things, Describing Places, Daily Routines, Telephoning, Telling Time, Giving Direction, and What’s your job. These will be learnt by conducting several activities such as describing, identifying, explaining, re-telling, comparing, reforting, discussing, dictation etc. Hopefully, this book can give useful contribution toward teaching General English in higher education.