Abstract
After a year more of living with COVID-19, the teachers’ and students’ resilience is still demanding, particularly regarding language online learning. Both parties must keep struggling to fulfill the learning requirements in times of crisis. One of the challenges in language issues is teaching English for Specific Purpose (ESP) in higher education during emergency remote learning (ERL) including teaching ESP at Poltekkes Kemenkes Malang in 2020-2021. At these times, ESP teachers have to design the materials by taking a lot of consideration regarding the students’ needs, goals, learning model, activities, tools, and feedback that met the emergency due to Coronavirus outbreak. They planned, implemented, and evaluated the learning process until they can find the best ones for the students. This study was a survey research with 23 participants of ESP lecturers. This article presented some best practices of teaching ESP in the online mode during ERL as the best experience of ESP lecturers, in the hope that it will be able to give some new insights for fellow educators to help them to provide better learning experiences for the students.
Highlights
Emergency Remote Learning (ERL) is such a crucial situation in which the English Language Teaching (ELT) is employed as a temporary response in the middle of crisis and restriction
The aim of this study was to find out the opinions, perceptions, and preferences of a group of English for Specific Purposes (ESP) lecturers of their best practices in teaching ESP in the times of emergency remote teaching and learning due to COVID-19 outbreak so that a survey research design was designed in this study
To help them meet students’ needs and goals during this outbreak of COVID-19, ESP teachers provided some best practices dealing with English online learning
Summary
Emergency Remote Learning (ERL) is such a crucial situation in which the English Language Teaching (ELT) is employed as a temporary response in the middle of crisis and restriction. After a year more of living with COVID19, the teachers’ and students’ resilience is still demanding, regarding language online learning Both parties must keep struggling to fulfill the learning requirements in times of crisis, including the English for Specific Purposes (ESP) teaching in higher education. At these times, ESP teachers have to design the materials by taking a lot of consideration regarding the students’ needs, goals, learning model, activities, tools, and feedback that met the emergency due to Coronavirus outbreak. These best practices owned by the lecturers became one of the best sources or references to have a successful teaching and learning during online setting in the times of pandemic
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