Revising EAP Programs in Indonesia: Where to Go?

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10.2991/amca-18.2018.115How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Renewal, EAP, study skills, general English, teaching materials, needs analysis

Abstract

This study examines how English for Academic Purposes programs are implemented in Indonesia. It reveals indications pointing to low standards in EAP implementations. This study describes EAP practices in three Indonesian universities: The State Islamic University, the State University, and the private University of Surakarta. Policy makers, lecturers, and students were involved through interviews, and classroom observations were conducted on a grounded theory basis. The results reveal how universities roll out EAP programs as study skills but fail to perform a student-based needs analysis and determine the learning outcomes in the areas of academic literacy and English proficiency in oral and written forms. Logistic problems also adversely affect the standard of curriculum contents, teaching materials, and teaching techniques. Indeed, many rely on a 2 or 4 credit General English Course, whereas EAP needs to go further to achieve a TOEFL PBT score of at least 450 or TOEFL iBT test, which only goes up to 120 as an indicator of success.

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© 2018, 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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