Student Perception of ESP Teachers’ Performance at Indonesian State Polytechnics

Abstract

There are two divisions of ESP (English for Specific Purposes) teachers at the early established state Polytechnics throughout Indonesia: first and secondgeneration teachers. The first generation participated in the Polytechnic Education Development Centre (PEDC) from 1987-1994, and the second generation of ESP teachers never participated in this training program. There hasn't been any investigation into the performance of these two groups of teachers to identify the impact of the PEDC training on their performance. Therefore, this research aims to find out student perceptions of both generations of ESP teachers' performance during teaching and learning activities. The researcher used a descriptive qualitative approach to answer the research questions. A number of students were involved and the data was collected through mixed questionnaires. The results showed that both generations have their own strengths compared to the other in different categories including need analysis, teaching method, teaching material, teaching media, and assessment.

Unveiling Faculty Performance through Student Eyes: A Comparative Study of Perspectives

“…A large number of students were participated, and data was gathered using a variety of questionnaires. The findings revealed that both generations had distinct skills in many areas such as need analysis, teaching technique, teaching content, teaching medium, and assessment (Sofa, Mariam, & Saputro, 2022).…”

Esp Materials Evaluation: Informatics Students’ Perspectives

“…Furthermore, there are some scholars investigating students' needs in ESP courses, especially in students of Higher Education. ESP course evaluation was carried out for the students of non-English major (Jaya & Subiyanto, 2017;Asmat el al., 2021;Sikumbang & Dalimunte, 2021;Satriani & Resmini, 2021;Sofa et al, 2022, Solihah et al, 2023. Those previous studies concerned the students' perspectives toward the ESP materials evaluation relating to the major studies.…”

“…In addition, Satriani and Resmini (2021) showed that the ESP materials developed the students' confidence to fulfill the tasks in the textbook. Sofa et al (2022) showed that ESP Teachers' performances in Business major had their own strength to find out students' need for analysis, teaching method, teaching materials, teaching media, and assessment.…”