Background and Problem. As an international language, English plays an important role a means of communication in all around the world. It is widely used on the field of economics, science, technology, tourism and also many books are written in English. It is a fact that English becomes more and more important language; for many people pay their attention in learning it, not just to learn the language itself, but to learn it for the sake of other purpose. In this paper I will explain about the place which used English by tourism, that is Bali or famous with “Paradise Island”. Bali is one of the tourist destinations in Indonesian, and very famous in the world, and dominated by Hindu that makes the island a lot of temples. Then, the island is called the Island of Gods, Island of Thousand Temples, and so on. As tourist destinations, Bali have many interesting place such as: Ubud, Kuta Beach, Tanah lot, Uluwatu, Bedugul, Batur Lake, Penelokan, Padang Bai, Taman Ujung, Goa Gajah, Gunung Kawi, Jatiluwih, Taman Ayun, Trunyan, Museums, etc. There, however, are still many people who do not know in depth about the uniqueness of Balinese culture. Life in Bali is always related to Tri Hita Karana that includes the spiritual relationship between human and God, and their environment. As the main tourist destinations there are of course a lot of interesting tourist object. One of them is Ubud. Ubud famous for the legend painter and cultural traditions are still strong. This village there was a lot of hotel, villa, restaurant, art shop, museum, gallery, and tourism object. A lot of tourist long time stay in the hotel or villa at Penestanan Ubud area to finding peace and comfort of their lives, there are some tourist said Ubud is their second home. In the area of Penestanan Ubud, many tourists buy paintings, statue, and traditional souvenirs in the art shop or art gallery to take home. This the reason that the art shopkeepers about the communication with the tourist, usually many art shopkeepers is not know about function of English. It is important for art shopkeepers to learn about the functions of the English language which has good communication with tourists. I choose Penestanan Ubud as my object of research because a lot of art shopkeepers used English has their communication. Based on the background, I am interested in doing a research on English functions and errors by art shopkeepers at Penestanan Ubud. I am also interested in analyzing their pronunciation in communication with the touri...
Background and Problem. Indonesia has many interesting places to be visited by foreigners, one of them is Bali. Many names have been given to this island such as: Island of the God, Land of Thousand Temples, and Heaven Island. Bali Island is also well known as an island rich in cultures, beautiful Balinese dances, and magnificent landscape panorama from the top hill down to the sea is one of the potential tourist destination because of it‟s beautiful views, traditional costumes and culture. (URL:xxxx://xxxxxxxxxxx- xxxxxxxxxxx.xxxxxxxx.xxx/0000/00/xxxx-xxxxxx-xxxxx.xxxx?x=0) One of the famous tourism destinations in Bali is Kuta. In Kuta there are so many hotels, bars, pubs,cafes, restaurants, malls, and art shops, which are visited by tourists to entertain themselves. The favorite place in Kuta is the beach. Kuta beach is known by tourists becauseof the beauty of the sand and beach. Beside, the tourist also can enjoy the spectacular sunset. Kuta naturally gives an effect for the economy to the people around Kuta to be the art shop attendants. The art shop attendants always offer their souvenirs like: handicrafts, silver jewelries, wood carvings, statues, paintings, bags, leather craft, summer dresses, beach wears, Balinese sarongs, postcards, accessories and many more to be enjoyed by visitors. At the art shop we can find some languages used for communication, this occurred since the visitors came from several countries, and mostly English as one of the international languages is used in their communication. As art shop attendants in Kuta, English is very important for them, because most of the visitors who come to Bali usually use English in their communication. Sometimes their English cannot be understood by the tourists because of some reasons. The reason could be their mother tongue and their educational condition. Besides that, the influence of their mother tongue made their English ungrammatical. They learn English from their friends or heard their friends speak to the foreigners. The miss communication commonly happened because they did not understand the meaning of the words which were said by the tourists. The art shop attendants also translated some expressions into their mother tongue that they should have translated into Standard English. But by their ability and skill they can offer their souvenir confidently. To offer their souvenir, they used English to communicate with tourists, for examples: - Art shop attendant :Hello, Morning, Morning price for you sir. Touris...
