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English is an elective subject at Indonesian primary schools and every school is allowed to offer English for providing young learners (YLs) opportunity to practice English for communication in global society. Moreover, English is introduced earlier in primary education as an extra-curricular activity as well as a locally-tailored school subject. This community service program aims at facilitating the sixth graders with extended activities to support the English for Young Learners (EYL) program that they have attended for six years and preparing them with initial experience before enrolling in English a compulsory subject class in lower secondary education. Ar-Rohmah English Week was conducted for 60 minutes within four working days with activities to enhance the YLs’ English listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Four activities were selected based on the learners’ needs within meaningful activities such as Virtual Tour to the USA, Reading Theater, Students’ Activities Journaling which infuses Islamic content, and Act Out and Presentation. All of those activities were also designed by addressing the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals 2030 (UN SDGs 2030) number 4 on quality education. With their English proficiency, all students are expected to be able to compete in mastering various knowledge in facing global challenges in the future.

The role of strategy was retained by universities to shape the quality of human resources to face the problems and challenges in the 21st century which linked to master both hard skills and soft skills. The main reason for analyzing the needs of entrepreneur from the role models to face industrial revolution era was the evolution of the need for college students graduate to be able to survive and compete with others. This research focused on the practitioner’s perspective on English mastery as one of the important parts of soft skills that should be mastered by the entrepreneurship students. Observation and in-depth-interview with five subject research used in this study in the qualitative method. Yin method used to analyze the data which included compiling, disassembling, reassembling, interpreting, and concluding the data until the saturation was achieved. This study reported that the ability to master English as a business language such as product description, presentation, negotiation, conversation, and emailing are very important to the entrepreneurship students. From studying the entrepreneurial role models, it is believed to represent sources of real inspiration and motivation to become successful entrepreneurs in the future.