Iranian Undergraduate Students’ Needs in English Co urses for General and Specific Purposes (original) (raw)

ESP teaching at all levels has been the rise of one f the effects of the growing importance of global English in professional contex ts. Academically speaking, needs analysis, one of the most important factors in ESP teaching, plays an important role in curriculum design which determines the goal and content of the course being designed. In other words, it is the process of establishing the “what” and “how” of a c ourse. Accordingly, the current study has explored English as a foreign language (EFL) underg raduate students’ needs in English for General Purposes (EGP) and English for Specific Pur poses (ESP/EAP) courses in terms of their perceptions of three subcategories of needs, necess ities, wants, and lacks, and reasons for students’ course enrollment. To this end, a questio nnaire was administered to 70 non-English major undergraduate students, who had already passe d EGP and ESP classes, to evaluate the different perceptions of necessities, wants, and la cks in the different l...

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