THE USE OF AUTHENTIC MATERIALS IN TEACHING ESP WRITING FOR ACCOUNTING STUDENTS AT UNIVERSITY OF MUHAMMADIYAH MALANG

The use of authentic materials as one of inspiring teaching resources has beenwidely recognized in the scope of EFL teaching for it provides plent y of advantages.In terms of ESP teaching, introducing authent ic materials is an effective way to supportESP students to learn about the real context of their future career since they have tofocus on exploring the world they are interested in thoroughly. Hence, this study wasdesigned to know the utilization of authent ic materials in teaching ESP writ ing classat Universit y of Muhammadiyah Malang along with its challenges and solutions.The researcher applied descriptive qualitat ive met hod in order to get cleardescription of the implementation of authent ic materials in ESP writ ing class. Theresearch subjects were four ESP instructors who taught writing skill at Account ingDepartment. The research instruments were classroom observat ion and interview.These instruments were chosen because it could describe the phenomena happened ofthe authent ic materials use. Particularly, these instruments can describe how theauthent ic materials are implemented, the encountered problems during theimplementation, and the solutions to overcome the problemsThe results showed that there were two types of authent ic materials used by theinstructors, namely authent ic listening and viewing materials and authentic visualmaterials. Some challenges emerged from the preparation phase up to theimplementation in the class, such as limited times to find out the suitable materials,students’ difficult ies in comprehending unfamiliar vocabularies and languagestructures, difficult ies in aligning the authent ic materials in accordance wit h students’major of study, and avoiding cultural bias contents. Nonetheless, all these challengescan be overcome properly wit h the optimal role of the teacher as a learning facilitator