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Improving the quality and usage of human resources, particularly education personnel, must be proportionate to the Internationalization of Higher Education, including English competence. The andragogy teaching and learning technique of the Informal English Community is an innovative attempt to develop the English language abilities of education personnel in facing higher education internationalization. This study specifically looked at the university's attempts to improve and optimize the role of education professionals in dealing with the internationalization of higher education by hosting activities in the form of informal English communities. In this study, the author uses applied research, which is one type of research that aims to provide practical solutions to particular problems, that this type of research is carried out with the intention of applying, testing, and evaluating the ability of a policy or program applied in solving practical problems. All stages of the research were carried out at the medical faculty, the most prominent faculty at a leading public university in Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia, namely Universitas Airlangga. The first stage was to design and implement program activities, and the second stage was to collect primary data with quantitative and qualitative methods. This applied research demonstrates that an English language training program based on the notion of an informal community designed using peer tutoring methods may minimize the rigidity of the learning process, reduce fear, and boost participants' willingness to participate in learning programs to improve English language abilities.