An ESP Needs Analysis: Addressing the Needs of English for Informatics Engineering

Abstract

English for specific purposes (ESP) have different needs of English language use. These needs will be the fundamental indicators to develop appropriate ESP syllabus. In order to find those needs, a need analysis research is necessary to conduct. This qualitative study addresses the result of ESP needs analysis for 95 Informatics Engineering of Muhammadiyah University of Ponorogo students. Brief reviews of ESP, needs analysis, and current learners’ situation of ESP classroom for Informatics Engineering are described as theoretical frameworks. A needs analysis questionnaire is utilized as an approach to find specific needs and to evaluate the current class situation. The results address 10 areas of English language use for Informatics Engineering major.

English Teaching in Vocational High School: A Need Analysis

“…Furthermore, for the long-term goal, the learners primarily express their intention to continue their study to higher education and to get a job. These findings correspond to the previous studies conducted by several scholars (Boroujeni & Fard, 2013;Liton, 2012;Nimasari, 2018;Poedjiastutie & Oliver, 2017).…”

“…This implies that they are basically unaware of the importance of the ESP materials related to their program. In contrast to those findings, an earlier study by Nimasari (2018) has revealed that the participants like to have topics that are relevant to their program, informatics engineering.…”

“…These findings support the arguments of Lee (2016) that 83.3% of participants agreed that they want to learn English to be more educated and to get a good job after graduating from university (85.2%). An earlier study (Nimasari, 2018) has also reported the similar findings that there were 67.37% students confessed that the reason why they study English is for their success future occupation. Also, this is in line with what has also been echoed by Boroujeni & Fard (2013) stating that the majority of the students (64.03%) consider higher education as their reason for studying English.…”

“…Studies of needs analysis have been undertaken over the last three decades (Widodo, 2016) and a number of contemporary researches on this issue have mushroomed in many different countries, such as Greece (Chostelidou, 2010;Tzotzou, 2014), Iran (Aliakbari & Boghayeri, 2014;Atai & Shoja, 2011;Boroujeni & Fard, 2013;Eslami, 2010;Mohammadi & Mousavi, 2013;Moiinvaziri, 2014), Spain (Benavent & Sánchez-Reyes, 2015;Peters & Fernández, 2013), Sudan (Elsaid Mohammed & Nur, 2018), USA (Bosher & Smalkoski, 2002;Serafini, Lake, & Long, 2015), Japan (Cowling, 2007), China (Guiyu & Yang, 2016;Li, 2014;Wu, 2012;Zhu & Liu, 2014), Turkey (Akyel & Ozek, 2010;Kayiran & Bağçeci, 2018), KSA (Abdalla & Mohammed, 2016;Al-Qahtani, 2015;Alsamadani, 2017;Fadel & Rajab, 2017), Taiwan (Chen, Chang, & Chang, 2016;Lu, 2018), Thailand (Bosuwon & Woodrow, 2009;Prachanant, 2012), and Indonesia (Nimasari, 2018;Poedjiastutie & Oliver, 2017;Sabarun, 2019;Salam, 2017). Those literatures reflect the centrality and the inevitable role of need analysis in establishing an ESP course.…”

Designing English For Specific Purpose Materials: A Preliminary Product for Informatics Engineering Context

“…The objective of the research focuses on further examination of the previous research conducted specifically in the context of English for Informatics Engineering study program in Universitas Muhammadiyah Ponorogo. ESP syllabus for English for Informatics Engineering, its organized materials and tasks according to the research report studied by Nimasari (2018) Nimasari (2018 are presented in this research.…”