摘要：For academics, foreign language academic literacy is essential in order to read and
analyze academic sources in the foreign language effectively as well as to produce
and present their own work in that language. In spite of various studies and
trainings on English for academic purposes, it is still questioned why academics
and graduate students cannot have the literacy in this area. To address this
problem, it is necessary to examine and determine their needs for foreign language
academic literacy. Therefore, the present paper reports a large scale needs analysis
on the academics and graduate students across different disciplines all over
Turkey. Applying quantitative research method, this study adapted a survey model
to determine and discuss which academic language skill is the most difficult and
what language skill competencies they should improve from their perspective. The
results were analyzed in terms of the language skill competencies and the
participants’ disciplines they studied. The findings indicated that the participants
needed most of the competencies questioned in the survey, and their needs were
language-skill specific rather than discipline-specific. The participants mostly
emphasized academic writing competencies, which supports the assumption in the
literature that productive skills are the most difficult skill to improve for learners.
关键词：academic literacy; needs analysis; Turkish academics; graduate students;
foreign language
