An Evaluation of the Needs Analysis Component in an Academic Setting  

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Zohrabi, Mohammad

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: The Asian ESP Journal vol. 7 no. 4 (2011), page 153-182.
Topik: NA (Needs analysis); EGP (English for General Purposes); The University of Tabriz
Fulltext: Untitled7.pdf (482.47KB)

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English for General Purposes (EGP) is a compulsory 3-hour-per-week course offered to undergraduate students at the University of Tabriz, Iran. The main goal of this study was to evaluate the EGP course from the point of view of needs analysis (NA). NA is one of the major components of any curriculum which needs to be investigated at any stage of the course. In order to investigate whether the EGP course fulfills students’ needs, wants, lacks, and interests, a questionnaire was distributed to 408 ex-EGP students and 12 language instructors and a semi-structured interview was conducted with 36 students and 12 instructors. The results of the study reveal that the EGP course is mostly text-based and reading-oriented which barely prepares students for the multimodalities of modern workplace and various challenges of new literacies in academic contexts. In order to cater for students’ needs, the EGP course should focus on all the language skills, develop students’ communicative abilities, adopt a discipline-centered approach based on students’ field, use communicative textbooks, promote group work and task-based activities, encourage language use and production, and provide teaching aids. This study could be useful for curriculum designers, material writers, practitioners and researchers in the fields of EAP and ESP.

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