Pare As A Phenomenon

Pare, Kediri, is one of the famous English learning places in Indonesia. Beside a fine place to improve English, it has a lot of supporting facilities like book stores, public libraries, internet cafes and many others.

As an alternative place to learn English, Pare offers more affordable and intensive courses. For those spending holiday, Pare serves exiting educative holiday programs, including English areas.

Not only does Pare provide English courses, but give other language course choises as well, like Arabic, Japanese, Mandarin, and France. Therefore, Pare is an excellent choice to strengthen language skills.

A friendly attitude of native people makes Pare comfortable to stay and learn English. This leads Pare to be an English society, popular as “Kampung Inggris” (Kampong of English).

The existence of “Kampung Inggris” brings advantages which are gotten not only by people visiting Pare, but also by societies living around. The phenomenon of “Kampung Inggris” gives advantages such as increasing in the sector of education, social, and economy, also encouraging between many tribes of Indonesian.

Many English courses and the high rate interest to learn English have accumulated resident income. They can increase their income via boarding house business, bicycle rentals, food stalls and course places.

Summing up, we can say that is a great phenomenon. For those seeking for affordable and intensive English course, Pare is the right choice. For those dreaming big income, Pare can also accommodate.

ENGLISH CAMP

Many people who spend their holiday to study English in Pare choose an English camp as their dormitory. An English camp is a dormitory where its members have to speak English in their daily activities. They decide to stay there because they hope it can be a fine place to guide them to practice English.

Ben, a university student from Jakarta coming to Pare chooses ‘Global English Camp’ as his dormitory. Because ‎​‎​he believes that the English camp can help him practice and improve his skill by the help from the seniors in the camp.

In the same way, Rio, from Cirebon coming to Pare has chosen Awarness English camp as his dormitory. Because ‎​he is sure that ‎​he will be able to speak English fluently by more practice in the camp.

But Olive, a university student from Magelang, has different opinion from above. She prefers to stay at the English camp because staying at lodging house has lower price than staying at the English camp. It’s not guaranteed staying at the camp can make her speak English fluently, clearly, and good. Because it will not certain effective to run the program of the camp if the members are too busy with their activities.

Another assumption for Mr. Abdul Rohim, the manager of Awarness center is that people come to the camp by little English ability made them feel hard to follow the senior who guided to speak in English.

As the fact above people who spend their holiday to study English in Pare have the right choosen place to stay as their needs.

PARE IN MR. KALEND’S VIEW

The development of Pare image, Tulungrejo, ang Pelem villages, Kediri, as a well-known “Kampung Inggris” cannot be separated from the role of Mr. Muhammad Kalend. Born on February 20, 1945 with a wife Siti Fatimah and three children, Mr. Kalend is the founder and the Director of Basic English Course (BEC), the first English course built in Pare.

Though Mr. Kalend’s educational background is not English, his English skill is undisputable. After graduating from Sekolah Rakyat (former elementary school) in 1960, ‎​” he continued to Pendidikan Guru Agama (PGA) and graduated in 1964. Studying in Kuliatul Muaslimin Al-Islamiah (KMI), Gontor, Ponorogo, from 1972 to 1976 was his last formal education.

Mr. Kalend is inspired to learn English by Ustadz Yazied, Darul Falah Islamic Boarding House organizer. Mr. Kalend admires Ustadz Yazid who mastered nine languages only by reading.

Mr. Kalend’s achievement to create a number of good qualified alumni should be appreciated, since some English course organizers in Pare are his former students. But Mr. Kalend expresses his concern over worse and worse motivation of those people learning English today compared with his former students of 80s. “It’s a pathetic, their attention is disturbed by many means of entertainment devices, television, and mobile phones, instead of assisting them. They can stand to chat and watch television for hours, and it seems to be a hard effort to read a book. Nearly my 1980s students were well qualified to be English teachers supported by their willingness to learn English”.

Mr. Kalend is very strict to his teaching methods that ‎​he will expel students who have been in BEC more than three months speaking other non-English in the BEC area.

Mr. Kalend states his objection to those people naming Pare as “Kampung Inggris”. To him, there is no real such thing. It’s just a mere name to attrack people to come to Pare. “You won’t always find residents, vendors, or even English-studying visitors speak English,” said Mr. Kalend. ‎​”, ‎​‎​he consider many English courses with more attractive services offered in Pare may be the reason to this name.

As a founding father of English course in Pare, he mention that not only English has the opportunity to be developed but also other languages, such as Arabic, Japanese, etc. No one is willing to initiate it, but ‎​he, “Any places in Indonesia can imitate Pare to be a center language study”. To do that requires a great determination and patience. We must not only put hope to government assist but also actively explore potential opportunities in Pare.

He also mentions the beneficial effects that can be earned by local residents, for example various work fields that can be raised.

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