Vocational High School (VHS) is formal education that organizes vocational education at the secondary education level. Learning English at the VHS level is categorized as English for Special Purposes (ESP) which means that English material is expected to meet the students' needs according to their majors. However, many students still have low English proficiency. This study aims to determine the English needs of tenth-grade students majoring in Office Automation and Governance. This study used a descriptive qualitative method. The data were obtained using English tests, questionnaires, and interviews as the instruments. Respondents in this study were tenth-grade students majoring in Office Automation and Governance. The results showed that 1) Lack of innovation and creativity in the teaching materials used by students 2) The materials in the textbooks were not appropriate with the needs of students in the Office Automation and Governance department.Keywords: Needs analysis, English teaching materials, department of office automation and governance
This research is the initial stage in research on the development of teaching materials where researchers try to find out the needs of learning English in class IX students of SMP N 5 Jepara in the 2020/2021 academic year. The researcher used a qualitative and quantitative descriptive research design. Researchers used test and non-test instruments. The instruments consist of listening tests and questionnaires. The respondents were students of class IX SMP N 5 Jepara. Then, the data analysis used is the Miles and Huberman method which consists of data reduction, data display, and verification. The results obtained from the analysis of the needs for learning English for class IX at SMP N 5 Jepara are: 1) the completeness of listening material are still low. 2) the listening pre-test indicates that students' listening skills are still lacking. 3) the interview with the teacher shows that teacher had difficulty in finding listening material.Keywords: Need Analysis, English Materials, Listening
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