Developing Electronic ESP Book for Information Systems Students

Urnika Mudhifatul Jannah ,Zurriat Nyndia Rahmawati

doi:10.7176/jlll/74-03

Abstract

English for Specific Purpose (ESP) course provides English skills and knowledge based on the students’ major. The topics in ESP course are specific and developed in specially-designed learning materials. This research aimed to develop electronic book for ESP course in Information Systems department with Research and Development method by ADDIE model, that stands for Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation. The e-book was designed based on the data collected in needs analysis through questionnaire, interview, and document analysis. The data showed that the currently used ESP learning materials needed to be replaced with more suitable learning materials. Based on that, the e-book was designed to comprise the recent topics in Information Systems. The e-book was divided into five chapters and the materials were presented through activities that were designed to develop students’ English skills. The temporary e-book was then validated by experts and tested in the try-out with the students’ representative. The e-book obtained positive feedback and was revised based on the suggestion given. The result showed that the e-book is in a good quality and feasible to be used in ESP course. Keywords: English for Specific Purpose, Information Systems, Electronic Book DOI: 10.7176/JLLL/74-03 Publication date: December 31 st 2020

Highlights

In answering global challenge, English skill has become one of the must-have skills for university graduates
The questionnaires were given to Information Systems students in UNIRA Malang through Google Form
The questionnaire included eight questions, which were: 1) the importance of English for Information Systems students; 2) the conformity of current learning materials with their major; 3) the support of the materials to learning process; 4) the difficulties found in English for Specific Purpose (ESP) course; 5) the factors which cause difficulties in learning ESP; 6) the list of important materials to be taught in ESP course; 7) the inadequacy of current ESP course, and 8) the suggestion to develop the quality of ESP learning and teaching process

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Introduction

English skill has become one of the must-have skills for university graduates. The university graduates must equip their ability in their field with sufficient language mastery to present themselves better in the work field. Besides general English knowledge, during their study, the students learn English that is specific to their major. In English for Specific Purpose (ESP), English is taught based on the needs of the target user ESP is designed for specific disciplines and used in particular setting; it is usually taught to the learner that has learned general English and used for professional goal The key in teaching ESP is how to teach English as a communication tool so that it can be understood based on the field and not merely translating the topic from one language to the target language (Kenny, 2016)

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