Language Aptitude in Learning Level of Vocational Students’ Training Productivity on The Tourism Field

Abstract

Tourism fields have represented remarkable growth in International arrivals where they reached the global economic climate and included Indonesia. Tourism in Indonesia grew continuing that stimulated by traditionally destinations within particular regions. The particular of tourism climate needs to be supported by human resources as manpower who have aptitude skills according to their fields, such as tourism fields. In addition, aptitude skills are becoming important as generators in expansion of traditionally destinations for tourism fields to growing economies rapidly. The process of obtaining aptitude skills is crucial to be explored and known for further. That is the way where it becomes the aim of this research. The research as qualitative study which used Kirkpatrick model with psycholinguistics background through psychometric know-how. Both of them explore the individual’s aptitude skills through their language aptitude as the first signal to know the productivity of training that they have attended. Data collection of this research was carried out a number of 30 vocational students in tourism industry who were close to the works in tourism fields. The results of this research showed up the differences of individual’s aptitude skills on learning level which related to others levels. Those are 1) sense in reaction; 2) action in behaviour; and 3) quality in outcome. All of them view the specific and dynamic situation on the process of individual’s training productivity.