ESP needs analysis assessment

Abstract

The authors present the questionnaire survey findings that reflect ESP students’ needs in ESP learning at MRU. Purpose - this research is aimed to analyse and assess ESP students’ needs for different language teaching/learning techniques to do the specially designed English course, to identify their attitudes towards information resources and materials for language learning purposes and to discuss the need for new ways of teaching by using ICT tools, to identify the interaction between ESP students’ needs and motivation in ESP learning. Methodology - the authors were following the quantitative research methodology by using the method of the questionnaire survey. The target group were 108 first year, full-time ESP students of six Bachelor study programmes, studying at MRU in 2011. The questionnaire results are presented by the number and percentage of respondents (out of 108) that have chosen the particular answer to each question.