ESP NEEDS ANALYSIS OF UNIVERSITY PREPARATORY SCHOOL STUDENTS: LEARNING-CENTRED APPROACH
Abstract
The current study has
been designed to survey needs analysis of Turkish GE students of School of
Economics and Administrative Sciences, Arts and Sciences and Engineering. To
analyse, a series of qualitative (interview with students) and quantitative
(questionnaires) instruments has been used. The method of questionnaires and
interview is used for undergraduate, intermediate level of preparatory class
students (N=75). Both questionnaires and interview were adapted and after the
validity and reliability analysis was verified they were brought to final shape
to be conducted. For the purpose of finding out needs required for effective
professional skills of participants and analysing the existing instructor
content and their pedagogical knowledge, descriptive statistics have been
provided in findings and results. The results of the study showed that the
majority of the participants expressed that preparatory class is necessary for
them but except from writing, grammar and vocabulary teaching, instructors
should give more importance to listening, speaking and reading skills. Besides,
they stated that materials in the classroom should be more authentic, real-like
and interesting. Accordingly, students’ objective and subjective are satisfied
more or less effectively, on the other hand, content needs -especially
curriculum design and departmental instructors’ opinions- are valuable to
reveal for them.
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Details
Primary Language
English
Subjects
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Journal Section
Research Article
Authors
Publication Date
December 26, 2016
Submission Date
February 24, 2016
Acceptance Date
November 9, 2016
Published in Issue
Year 2016 Volume: 13 Number: 36