BUILDING ENGLISH VOCABULARY FOR COOKING THROUGH SEMANTIC FEATURE ANALYSIS

Abstract

Tourism in Bali develops rapidly and efforts to improve tourism industry increasingly
encouraged; food tourism is one of them. Food tourism or culinary tourism has own
attractiveness as purpose of tourism by exploring food. Therefore, many competent
human resources are demanded and cooking or culinary terms are necessary to
master. Learning and teaching English for specific purposes needs some strategies to
make learners easy to comprehend so that they master adequate vocabularies and
use words effectively. It is assumed that this strategy helps learners to understand
vocabularies through related semantic features of word so that the learners
comprehend words they learnt and be able to describe or even distinguish
synonymous words. The respondents are Dhyana Pura University 3rd year students in
Food and Beverage class. Participation-observation is used as method and technique
of collecting data. Meanwhile, descriptive method is used in analyzing data. This
result shows that Semantic Feature Analysis (SFA) strategy influence over learners’
understanding in learning English vocabularies that being marked with learners’
ability describing cooking-vocabulary-related through semantic features analysis
strategy.
Keywords: Bali, Cooking, English vocabulary, Semantic Feature Analysis, Tourism