Learning Needs of Thai Civil Engineering Students  

Oleh:

Kaewpet, Chamnong

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: The Asian ESP Journal vol. 7 no. 3 (2011), page 79-105.
Topik: needs analysis; learning needs; engineering students; ESP; Thailand
Fulltext: Untitled5.pdf (423.96KB)

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The purpose of this study was to identify the learning needs of Thai civil engineering students who were preparing to attend an ESP course. Fifteen stakeholders who observed the teaching and learning process helped identify the needs of the students by participating in individual interviews. The participants included civil engineering lecturers, former civil engineering students of the course and ESP teachers. The learning needs were identified along the the following lines: Who were the learners? What would be their favoroable teaching and learning methods? What would make suitable teachers, instructional materials, study location and time of study? What would be their rationale for taking the ESP course? The interview findings reveal a variety of learner needs. The study highlights the usefulness of understanding the learners’ needs before taking classes. The findings suggest that this is an effective way in which ESP lessons could be prepared, with the option of designing an ESP course based on learners’ background knowledge of specialised content Such options are discussed in this paper for the benefit of ESP course design in the general Thai context.

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