ENGLISH DAILY NEWSPAPER AND ITS IMPACT ON PROFESSIONAL LITERACY FOR ENGLISH LECTURER

Abstract

The present study aims at finding the impacts of English daily newspaper on the
development of professional literacy for lecturer. The literate daily habit of English
lecturers is the underlying reason why this study is carried out. The literate habits can be
found where lecturers used to be reading printed mass media written in English besides
reading other primary textbooks and references. They designate The Jakarta Post mass
media which is the biggest mass media in Indonesia written in English. As the study focuses
on how the daily newspaper contributes to their professional literacy, a qualitative
descriptive research design is used to execute the study. The respondents are English
lecturers of Teacher Training and Education (IKIP) Budi Utomo Malang consisting of
seventeen lecturers. The data is gained through observation and interview. Based on the
data analysis, it is found that English daily newspaper has impacts on lecturers' professional
literacy. Respondents were challenged to how Indonesian phrases are expressed in English.
They are also challenged to be more critical reader, both editing and content critical based.
While on their duties of Tridharma, the newspaper is leveraged as classroom supplements
for teaching language skills and components as well as linguistics and literature studies.
Their writing stamina also boosted as their input from the news increased. Finally, their
experiences are very often expressed in their last Tridharma duties, i.e. public services by
sharing and upgrading teachers' literacy at schools.