A Need Analysis of English for Academic Purposes
- DOI
- 10.2991/amca-18.2018.54How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Need analysis, English for Academic Purposes
- Abstract
The English for Academic Purposes (EAP) learning is shifting where some tend to lead to the English for General Academic Purpose (EGAP) and others lead to English for Specific Academic Purposes (ESAP). This shift towards two different poles is often due to the highly dynamic and numerous needs of the learners’ character themselves so that the scope of EAP becomes highly developed and varied. This research seeks to explore and develop the diversity of new EAP needs based on mobile assisted language learning technologies. Using questionnaires to 40 students and interviews of 8 teachers in law, industrial, and education faculty, it was found that English proficiency of the participants was pre-intermediate (78%) with the expected ability of speaking (83%), and the scope of the material leads to success study and work. Learning materials refer to books and research articles that often come into contact with seminars and publications of scientific papers in the field of law, industrial and education with a combination of audio visual learning media and the integration of information technology (mobile assisted language learning) so as to facilitate the implementation of student learning center. Thus, these findings indicate that EAP trends are expected to be integrated with information technology (based on android), tend to lead to English for Specific Academic Purposes.
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- © 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Khoirul Anwar PY - 2018/07 DA - 2018/07 TI - A Need Analysis of English for Academic Purposes BT - Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Community Development (AMCA 2018) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 198 EP - 200 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/amca-18.2018.54 DO - 10.2991/amca-18.2018.54 ID - Anwar2018/07 ER -