THE IMPORTANCE OF ENGLISH PROFICIENCY TO FACE REVOLUTION INDUSTRY 4.0

Abstract

The online world is filled with buzzwords and we all get bombarded with the latest and greatest new big thing or thought. It can be quite difficult to figure out which new jargons to pay attention to and which to ignore. In the last few years terms such as ‘Industry 4.0’ and ‘Second Machine Age’ have gained considerable momentum, and these are clearly worth paying attention to. The global economic and technology  development currently is very rapid. One of the developments that is the Revolution Industry 4.0. Each individual is required to be proficient in communication. In this case, the role of English competency is required. The writer measures that English proficiency for Medical Rceords and Health Infromatics students in Polytechnic Piksi Ganesha Bandung  as the research object. According to the result of this study, the writer found that the students still need a lot of training to improve their English for communicating. They are not ready yet to compete in Revolution Industry 4.0. The main problem found that the students do not improve their vocabularies.