ELT in Focus
Vol. 4 No. 1 (2021): ELT in Focus

ESP Coursebook Evaluation: Students’ Perception on Activities and Tasks

Intan Satriani (IKIP Siliwangi)
Setya Resmini (IKIP Siliwangi)



Article Info

Publish Date
07 Aug 2021

Abstract

In teaching and learning process, teachers without preparation and materials in teaching like chefs without cooking ingredients. It can be assumed that preparing the activity and materials is important for the teachers before they deliver the lesson. On the point of that, this research is aimed at evaluating a coursebook in English for Specific Purposes (ESP) subject. It investigates students’ responses towards ESP coursebook written by Hutchinson and Waters (1987) entitled English for Specific Purposes. The evaluation format used in this research is adopted from Al-Sowat (2012). Limitation of this research is on choosing only one area as the focus of evaluation. There are activities and tasks. The participants involved in this research were university students. The data were collected by distributing questionnaire to the participants using google form. Descriptive qualitative was used to analyze and present the data. The results showed that the coursebook has strength. Students do not feel bored, also those activities can make students more creative and active in the classroom. This research suggests further research to develop an appropriate coursebook for English for Specific Purposes subject.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

ELTINFOCUS

Publisher

Subject

Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

ELT in Focus is an academic journal published by English education program, Universitas Singaperbangsa Karawang undergraduate school in Karawang regent,West Java, Indonesia. It is a biannual journal published in January and July. It is a freely accessible, full text, peer-reviewed journal allowing ...