DA’WAH STUDENTS STUDY ENGLISH AND RELIGIOUS TOLERANCE: WHY NOT?

Abstract

Da'wah Faculty students who are the focus of researchers are students majoring in Da'wah Management who in the future will become preachers. This certainly  makes them sometimes overlook the benefits of learning English and also the importance of religious tolerance. In fact, these two things will definitely be very important provisions for those who will become important actors in spreading Islamic religion to local but also international communities. Therefore, this research aims to identify and describe learning English and the insertion of religious tolerance values to Da'wah Management (MD) students at Da'wah Faculty at UIN Salatiga. In addition, this research will also explore some previous research and important theories that are relevant to this research, then those will be compared with the findings of this research. This research method is qualitative with a descriptive approach. The results are as follows: (1) MD students study English according to the context of their knowledge as MD students; and (2) They are also indirectly taught religious tolerance while studying English.