Encouraging Students to Create their ESP Course Design Using Project-Based Instruction

DOI

10.2991/eltlt-18.2019.19How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Project Based Instruction, English for Specific Purposes, Course Design

Abstract

This paper presents some steps of teaching EFL students to create an ESP course design in their ESP class by applying a project-based instruction (PBI). This study was conducted due to the background of the students’ low achievement in understanding ESP subject. The purpose was that by using PBI students would get increased achievement with both the knowledge and skill about the principles of EFL teaching for ESP. Specifically, they were expected to have ESP knowledge, skills of creating a class design based on the learners’ need analysis, and capability of writing a set of relevant ESP teaching materials. This was a classroom implementation upon a compulsory course subject named English for Specific Purposes. PBI was chosen due to its principle, namely a classroom activity that focuses on students. It is believed that it enables them to get deeper knowledge through active exploration of real-world challenges and problems. The aim of the teacher to use PBI in her classroom was to create a different atmosphere in the teaching learning as to refer to the learning outcomes. The class applied four stages of PBI: speculation, designing the project activities, conducting the project activities, and evaluation. Employing twenty-seven seventh semester students of English Department of Wijaya Kusuma Surabaya University working in groups, the study referred to two-cycled classroom action research design. By doing so, the students showed significant improvement in their achieving scores representing the learning outcomes of the course

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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