Volume 6 Issue 43 (November 2021) PP. 320-331 DOI 10.35631/IJEPC.643025 Special Issue: Issues and Challenges in English Education Copyright © GLOBAL ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE (M) SDN BHD - All rights reserved 320 INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EDUCATION, PSYCHOLOGY AND COUNSELLING (IJEPC) www.ijepc.com HIGHER EDUCATION ESL CURRICULUM TRANSITION POST- COVID-19 ERA: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW Rachel Ingkee Martin 1 , Wardatul Akmam Din 2* , Ameiruel Azwan Ab Aziz 3 , Suyansah Swanto 4 1 Faculty of Psychology and Education, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Malaysia Email: rachel09martin@gmail.com 2 Faculty of Psychology and Education, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Malaysia Email: wardadin@ums.edu.my 3 Faculty of Psychology and Education, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Malaysia Email: ameirul@uitm.edu.my 4 Faculty of Psychology and Education, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Malaysia Email: suyansah@ums.edu.my * Corresponding Author Article Info: Abstract: Article history: Received date:14.11.2018 Revised date: 10.10.2021 Accepted date: 15.11.2021 Published date: 30.11.2021 To cite this document: Martin, R. I., Din. W. A., Aziz, A. A. A., & Swanto, S. (2021). Higher Education ESL Curriculum Transition Post-Covid-19 Era: A Systematic Review. International Journal of Education, Psychology and Counseling, 6 (43), 320-331. DOI: 10.35631/IJEPC.643025 This work is licensed under CC BY 4.0 The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a stir in the field of education. As higher educational institution (HEI) closes its lecture halls and tutorial rooms due to the pandemic, lecturers in HEI are scrambling to adjust to the curriculum transition from having a face-to-face lecture to teaching remotely using an online platform. ESL instructors in HEI were among those affected by the sudden curriculum transition. Therefore, this paper aims to systematically review the challenges faced by ESL instructors from HEI on how they adapted to the curriculum transition post-COVID-19. Related articles were obtained from two prominent databases namely ProQuest and Scopus using specific keyword search terms. A total of six articles were selected for review out of 933 articles that were initially detected from the databases after executing a thorough selection criteria. After that, the challenges faced by ESL instructors and how they cope with the challenges were identified and discussed. Our findings suggest that ESL instructors from different parts of the world are all experiencing an adverse struggle in adapting to the curriculum transition caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. However, more studies in the context of ESL curriculum are needed to fully understand the impact of COVID-19 on ESL instructors’ teaching performance. Keywords: Higher Education Institution, ESL Curriculum, Curriculum Transition, COVID-19, Online Distance Learning