e-ISSN: 2636 – 9109 Volume 4 Number 2 September 2022, 23 ~ 33 DOI: https://doi.org/10.37698/ashrej.v4i2.137  23 Journal of UCYP Press (www.journal.ucyp.edu.my) Students’ Participation in Online Discussion of ESP Course through Team Based Project Nora Ronita Dewi 1 , Indra Hartoyo 2 & Anggraini Thesisia Saragih 3 1,2,3 Universitas Negeri Medan, Indonesia ARTICLE INFO ABSTRACT Article history: Received Jul 15, 2022 Revised August 25, 2022 Accepted Sep 07, 2022 This study aims to analyze students’ participation in online discussion forum of ESP course with Team Based Project. The materials and process of this model have been designed in the LMS for students. There were 98 participants from 5 classes of ESP course taken as the sample of this research. Various difficulties faced by students in developing communication in writing become more complicated when learning is done online. Team based project is applied because it demands the ability of the students themselves to solve problems (Student Center Learning) and in responding to the acquirement of Indonesian Qualification Framework (IQF) Curriculum that as a new Higher Education Key Performance Indicator (IKU) from the Ministry of Education. A survey with quantitative approach is conducted in this research. The results show that the respondents reacted to numerous responses into many aspects such as; 1) demographic information; 2) patterns of online participation 3) frequency of participation in online discussion forum; 4) percentage of read but no response posts; 5) percentage of response and response posts; 6) benefits of participation in online forum; 7) perceived impact of discussion forum on student learning and performance; and 8) problems of participation in online forum. Keywords: ESP Course, IQF, Online Learning, Team-Based Project. Conflict of Interest: None Funding: None Corresponding Author: Nora Ronita Dewi, English Education Study Program, Universitas Negeri Medan Jalan Willem Iskandar, Pasar V, Medan Estate, Percut Sei. Tuan, Deli Serdang, Sumatera Utara 20221 Tel. (+62 81265949456. E-mail: noradewi@unimed.ac.id © Nora Ronita Dewi, Indra Hartoyo, Anggraini Thesisia Saragih This is an open-access article under the CC BY-SA 4.0 international license. 1. Introduction 1.1 Introduce the Problem Nobody can deny that active classroom engagement was critical to language learning success. According to Liu (2005), students who actively participate outperform students who do not participate in academics. Students' oral participation can help them bridge the gap between what they want to say and whether they can say it. Furthermore, "verbal contact provides language learners with the opportunity to follow up on new vocabulary and structures introduced during language sessions and practice them in context," according to popular belief (Liu, 2005). The advancement of science and technology is essential to education. The development of digitalization in human life has helped create closer connections and relationships. The internet allows people to connect with a wider range of people more easily than ever before. System changes require a quick response in order to keep up. Even though it is conducted at home, both lecturers and students must be prepared in order to get the most out of the class. Virtual meeting participants need to be prepared to manage their devices and internet data packages independently. These changes and developments happen as a whole, including the teaching and learning process that must be continued online. Lecturers and students need to be ready to use online learning systems in a way that adapts to the materials they are looking at, including finding and understanding information on the web. Many lecturers in ESP Course found that they have not used the Indonesian Qualification Framework Curriculum (IQF)- and new models of learning, such as Team Based Project and Case Method perfectly. Many factors contribute to this problem, both internal factors that the