The Development of English Course Material for STEM Learners Entitled “Technical English for Engineering Students”

This paper was aimed to develop and evaluate the quality of the English course material for STEM learners entitled “Technical English for Engineering Students” and to examine the satisfaction of the students towards the course material. The panel of 3 experts was formed in order to evaluate the quality of the course material. The research tools consisted of a) quality evaluation form for the expert panel, and b) questionnaire on the students' satisfaction towards the English course material with Likert's 5-point rating scale. The statistical methods were mean score and standard deviation. At the end of the course, 207 first-year undergraduate students who enrolled in the course “Technical English” filled out the questionnaire on their satisfaction towards the course material. The findings showed that the expert panel gave positive review comments about the course material in terms of the communicative approach to English language teaching (ELT) and features of English for specific purposes (ESP). Furthermore, the students expressed the highest level of satisfaction towards the course material.