标题：Assessing the Academic Literacy and Learning Needs of Undergraduate Engineering Students: A case study of Quaid-E-Awam University of Engineering, Science and Technology (QUEST) Pakistan
期刊名称：International Journal of English and Education
印刷版ISSN：2278-4012
出版年度：2013
卷号：2
期号：3
出版社：Brahmaputra Publishing House
摘要：Needs analysis, which is described as a way of ascertaining the needs oflearners, is used as the basis for EAP/ESP. The rationale for needs analysis comesfrom the fact that once the teachers know about the target English situations of thestudents, they will use them instruction, which enhances students’ likelihood ofachieving success in their courses and future careers (Benesch, 1996). The presentstudy looks at the needs of undergraduate students at QUEST from the perspective ofa target needs model prescribed by Hutchinson and Waters (1987) vis-à-vis theimportance of language skills and purposes for learning English. In this study,questionnaire was used to seek the perspectives of the currently enrolled final yearstudents from Civil Engineering Department, and English teachers of EnglishLanguage Centre. The main findings of the study were that students’ specific needswere not being met. The students considered that productive skills (writing andspeaking) were more important than receptive skills (reading and listening) for theiracademic and professional success. In addition, students were keener to learntechnical vocabulary than general vocabulary, and were relatively uninterested inlearning grammar through traditional methods. However, their teachers from the ELCbelieved that both receptive and productive skills were equally important for theQUEST undergraduate students. They considered academic literacy skills as mostimportant for the students in their initial years of study, and both academic literacyand professional skills including written and oral communication skills as veryimportant for the students in their final years of study and beyond. In contrast to thestudents, they considered reading to be the most important skill, followed by writing.Like the students, they rated English language skills as very important for students’success in their academic and professional endeavours.
关键词：ESP; EGAP; ESAP; Needs Analysis; Learning Purposes; and English for;Engineers
