A Need Analysis of 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 preintermediate (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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