English language education department faculty of education and teacher training sunan ampel state islamic university

5. English Day Program
English Day Program is a program to communicate
with English all day long with each other in a certain place such
as in the school, university, or others. Sometimes, there is a
punishment for someone who does not communicate with
English. It is held to attract students’ interest in developing their
English ability and facilitate them to communicate in English all
day long. It also helps students to be more confident to have a
conversation in English. Not every institute has an English Day
program, but only an institute that implements English in their
daily activity.
English Day Program, is one of the ways to create a
safe speaking environment. English Day Program can be
included in the immersive speaking task because students will do
the task without any pressure and they will naturally join the
conversation. Meanwhile, immersive conversation becomes the
component of immersive tasks because they need to practice in
the target of language but because they want to say something
important.
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furthermore, conversations that maybe happened to
use the language with others such as discussing the lesson,
making a joke, or clearing the misconceptions that they can do
outside the classroom.
So, the researcher concluded that creating the daily
English environment is needed such as in the teaching-learning
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process, in meetings, and in daily conversation. This environment
will be successful if the department establishes the regulation that
speaking English is compulsory for all components in daily
activities in the department. The main supporter of the program is
English lecturers, they should apply English in the teaching-
learning process and make students more active to speak up using
English during the class.