Investigating Language Needs of Port and Shipping Management Students: Lessons Learned from The Internship Program
- DOI
- 10.2991/assehr.k.211125.104How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- English for Specific Purpose (ESP); internship program; need analysis; Port and Shipping Management; vocational education
- Abstract
Need analysis is one of the important processes in English language teaching. In vocational education, it is important to ensure that students have competences that match the demands and needs of the industries. This study is aimed to investigate the language needs of Port and Shipping Management students of Politeknik Ilmu Pelayaran Semarang, based on their experience during the internship program. An open-ended questionnaire was used to survey the English-related-tasks that students have to perform, the difficulties that the students face when doing their tasks, and the language competence that the students want to improve based on their experience. 68 students participated in this research. All of them are eighth-semester students and had conducted internship program for twelve months. This study revealed that the four language skills: speaking, writing, listening, and reading are very important. Students have to make reports, engage in discussions, respond to clients or customers’ requests, handle documents, and reply letters. Students often find difficulties when doing their tasks due to limited grammar and vocabulary of formal language. They want to improve their communicative competence so that they can communicate fluently and accurately.
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- © 2021 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license.
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Latifa Ika Sari AU - Abdurrachman Faridi AU - Dwi Rukmini AU - Januarius Mujiyanto PY - 2021 DA - 2021/11/26 TI - Investigating Language Needs of Port and Shipping Management Students: Lessons Learned from The Internship Program BT - Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Science, Education and Technology (ISET 2020) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 556 EP - 560 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.211125.104 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.211125.104 ID - Sari2021 ER -