Lecturer Voices: Exploring the EAP Materials Needs in Technology and Information Education

Abstract

EAP or English for Academic Purposes is a specialized English language learning targeted to specific students according to the field pursued and achieved an academic goal in the result. Similarly, in EAP teaching and learning activity, the materials or books are indispensable. Currently in Indonesia, the availability of teaching materials in the form of EAP books, especially for the Department of Education in Technology and Information, is quite limited and lecturers must arrange by their own. Consequently, this becomes a crucial issue in the teaching and learning process in the classroom. In this article, the researcher attempts to explore lecturers’ voices and perceptions regarding the EAP materials for Technology and Information Education. The data was gathered through interviews on the needs of EAP lecturers regarding EAP teaching materials themselves. The descriptive data were analyzed qualitatively using the semi-structured interview. In qualitative inquiries it sums of three aspects of lecturers’ voices concluding the EAP materials challenge, the features in EAP materials project and lecturers want in EAP materials for the future.