Designing A Syllabus of Collaborative English Teaching for Physics Study Program

Esti Junining

doi:10.30762/jeels.v2i2.170

Abstract

The recommended model of teaching English for students of non-English department is collaborative teaching which provides subject lecturer‘s involvement in the curriculum design. This paper reported the process of designing a syllabus of collaborative teaching for ESP teaching in Indonesian context. As a part of curriculum design, this ESP syllabus focuses on content area reading in the area of physics. Several text types commonly used in physics department and vocabulary building of academic word lists and the ones related to physics area study were elaborated as well. The paper concludes that the implementation of this program needs high commitment from the stakeholders in order to make the program successfully implemented.

Highlights

Designing a syllabus of collaborative English teaching in this paper deals primarily with the innovation in teaching English for non-English department students in which the trend indicated much failures due to less interesting course designed to fulfill the need of English for Specific Purposes (ESP) learners
Due to the wide scope of ESP teaching at the university level, this syllabus is limited for teaching the students of Physics Study Program
One of the reasons of using this Content Based Instruction (CBI) is that it has similar characteristics of ESP teaching by Hutchinson and Waters (1987) in the way that it describes the role of learner, teachers and materials

Summary

Introduction

Junining, Designing a Syllabus of Collaborative English Teaching for Physics Study Program. On the basis of this innovation, this paper begins with the rationale of designing a syllabus for collaborative English teaching, followed by the background of writing the syllabus including the curriculum, university, learners and the status of ESP, as well as the aims and objectives of designing the syllabus. Allen and Unwin word list and the most common vocabulary of academic word list used in the texts in the area of physics. 2. Reading of different text types in the area of physics. 3. Understand vocabularies of academic word list and their usage in some texts in the area of physics. 3. identify sequence of events of some texts in the area of physics 4.

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