A Needs Analysis of Postgraduate ESP Students Majoring In Hospitality Management in Iran

Abstract

The present study aimed at running a needs analysis concerning the needs and requirements of postgraduate ESP students majoring in hospitality management in Iranian universities. To do so, a descriptive survey was designed in which the data was gathered through interviews and the needs analysis questionnaire which was developed and validated for the purpose of the study. The participants of the study consisted of 20 PhD candidates and 30 master's students majoring in hospitality management in Iranian universities. The data gathered by means of the questionnaire were subjected to descriptive analysis and based on the results obtained, the most common issues stated by students were (a) the present status of the English language educational system is not satisfactory; (b) the general English textbooks do not meet the students' needs; (c) students' motivation for the English language is not boosted; (d) the number of hours dedicated to the English language is not adequate; (e) undue emphasis is paid to grammar which has led to the students' learning frustration; (f) the first and the most important needs for the English components are reading comprehension, writing, and translation, vocabulary and essay writing skills are highly required by the postgraduate students; (g) the content of the specialized English textbooks must be more relevant to the students' fields of study and specialized English courses should be taught by the ESP instructors. There is the hope that the findings and results of the present study help EFL curriculum designers and textbook developers to enhance English language instruction at universities in general, and in hospitality management discipline, in particular.

Vocational High School Students’ Needs on English Speaking Learning Materials for Hospitality Study Program

“…So, to meet the students needs with the approriate learning materials, need analysis should be done before to get more information about the students need' relates to their wants, lacks and necessities. Furthermore, the need analysis is categorized as important thing to do as mention by some previous researchers stated that need analysis is an essential thing should be dne as the first step before do the another steps, they are: Hui, 2011; Ampa, Rasyid, Rahman and Basri, 2013; Mahbub, 2017;Putri, 2018, Moattarian & Tahririan, 2014Zareian &Pourfarhad, 2015 andZahedpisheh, Bakar &Saffari in 2017.…”

“…Then, the raising number of research studies relates to learning materials specifically for specific purposes has been undertaken by previous researchers. The numbers of previous researches were related to learning materials are grouping into some topics, such as: first research about need analysis of learning materials for specific purposes in college's level; in Indonesia (Hui, 2011; Ampa, Rasyid, Rahman and Basri, 2013; Mahbub, 2017; Putri, 2018) Iran (Boroujeni & Fard, 2013;Moattarian & Tahririan, 2014;Zareian & Pourfarhad, 2015) Malaysia (Zahedpisheh, Bakar & Saffari, 2017). Second, researches topic about developing learning materials for speaking skill are also have been researched extensively around the world, such as: Indonesia (Prabandasari, Sutarsyah & Mahpul, 2017;Sijabat, 2018;Suroyo & Faridi, 2018); Ukraine (Tarnopolsky, 2013).…”

English Listening Learning Material for Hospitality Study Program in Vocational High School: Users’ Needs Analysis

“…They are; Lin, wen andzhu, 2014 andMuhrofi, 2018. In addition, there are several researches related to students need analysis in hospitality study program. They are conducted by Lin, Wu, and Hun, 2013;Zareian andPourfarhad, 2015 andAkbulut, 2016. Others researchers also conducted the needs analysis of the stakeholders in English for hospitality, they are researches conducted by Zsuzsa vrvsouvszy and ruri, 2000; Yowsan and Greiman, 2014; Beta, 2016; Lhouise and Keri, 2016; Dwi and Rhonda, 2017; and indah, 2018.…”