Integrating Digital Tools in ESP Classroom: Enhancing Students’ Technical Vocabulary and Engagement

Abstract

This study investigates the integration of digital tools in ESP classroom to improve students’ English technical vocabulary and engagement. The use of digital tools is limited into wayground (quizzes), wordwall, padlet, liveworksheet, and camva AI. Subject of this study is second semester students of Engineering program which consist of Mechanical Engineering, Automotive Engineering, and Electrical Engineering. The findings reveal that the implementation of digital tools give positive impact to students’ achievement in English technical vocabulary and students’ engagement. There is an improvement to the students’ score of post-test. The use of digital tools offers enjoyable and fun learning atmosphere which encourage students to actively participate in the classroom. They also independently seek the learning sources they need. Moreover, internet connection, data internet, digital literacy still become main obstacles faced by lecture and students during this process. It is expected that in the future, education institution is able to train educators on how to use digital tools in order to optimize the usage of digital tools, and provide proper facilities to support the success of learning process.