Evaluating Academic Writing Coursebook for Indonesian EFL Undergraduate Students: A Need Analysis Approach

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10.2991/978-2-38476-054-1_47How to use a DOI?

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need analysis; case study; academic writing coursebook; evaluating; EFL undergraduate student

Abstract

Evaluating teaching materials, particularly a coursebook, requires much attention as integrally in need analysis to enhance learning and teaching quality. Concerning Academic Writing (AW) in a higher education context, this matter needs consideration conscientiously since its artifact demands the outcome of student writing skills. The rapid technology growth, the uncertainty of the pandemic Covid 19 end, and the instability of offline and online class settings lead to reconstructing an AW coursebook. The current research aimed to evaluate the internal academic writing book from faculty and student perspectives. This paper was conducted in a qualitative descriptive case study at a private university in Jakarta, Indonesia. The data collection methods included the questionnaires and interviews that were administered to reveal further or continuing research in developing the AW teaching material to adequate faculty and student needs from manual to platforming into a Learning Management System. The participants included five faculty members and 103 undergraduate students. The data analysis focused on objective, content, organization and design, and methodology. The evaluation investigation of the internally published coursebook yielded that the objective is mediocre, the content needs rectification, the organization and design require updating, and the methodology necessitates more reconsideration. Therefore, the revealed study implies that the academic writing coursebook requires improvement, adaptation, or supplementation with other relevant instructional materials to the current situation and faculty and student needs .

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Rina Husnaini Febriyanti
AU  - Herlina Usman
AU  - Ninuk Lustyantie
PY  - 2023
DA  - 2023/05/18
TI  - Evaluating Academic Writing Coursebook for Indonesian EFL Undergraduate Students: A Need Analysis Approach
BT  - Proceedings of the 20th AsiaTEFL-68th TEFLIN-5th iNELTAL Conference (ASIATEFL 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 539
EP  - 553
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-38476-054-1_47
DO  - 10.2991/978-2-38476-054-1_47
ID  - Febriyanti2023
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