Journal of English Language and Education
Vol 6, No 2 (2021)

Investigating Students’ Engagement in ESP Online Course during Covid-19 Pandemic

Risa Arroyyani (Institute of Health Science Surya Global Yogyakarta)



Article Info

Publish Date
20 Dec 2021

Abstract

This research aims to determine students’ engagement levels and factors in attending ESP online courses during the Covid-19 pandemic. In performing data and data analysis, a qualitative research design was employed with the interpretation of descriptive statistics. This research distributed a questionnaire to 59 students in the nursing department. The research findings showed that four dimensions of students’ engagements got a means score in the level of "Agree"; skills engagement with 4.18, participation/interaction engagement with 3.99, emotional engagement with 3.88, and performance engagement with 3.86. For factors influencing students' engagement, all factors consisting of direct and indirect factors got a means score of "Strongly Agree" as 4.38. The findings showed that the students were engaged in an ESP online course. Both direct and indirect factors influence students’ engagement including learning resources, teaching competency, knowledge base, learning style, teaching context, social network, and technology.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

jele

Publisher

Subject

Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media Other

Description

Journal of English Language and Education (pISSN: 2597-6850 and eISSN: 2502-4132) is a journal that focuses on researching or documenting issues in education, language education, applied linguistics, English education, English language teaching, English Literature, language assessment and ...