Assessing learners' needs is an integral part of any curriculum and course design , namely English for specific purposes (ESP), syllabus design, materials development, teaching methods and testing issues. Critical approach to needs analysis, which is a relatively recent approach, acknowledges the rights of different stakeholders including teachers, students and administrators in the process of ...

background: there are two main methods employed for the evaluation of the reading comprehension ability of students of esp; one using specialized english texts, and the other with general english texts. purpose: to determine whether or not there is a correlation between the two methods.     methods: in the regular         competency for academic purposes.

The present study aimed to assess the target and present reading comprehension needs and abilities of Iranian medical students with different levels of English language proficiency. A total of 283 medical students and 23 ESP instructors were chosen through cluster sampling. The data collection instruments included the Persian version of Atai and Nazari’s (2011) needs analysis questionnaire and ...

The article is devoted to the role of grammar in an ESP class – students who don’t specialize English and need primarily for professional reading. authors argue that most important language skill special purposes framework tertiary education academic reading, which serves as a basis developing speaking writing skills. Teaching reading impossible without formal systematic study grammar. principa...

Needs analysis is generally believed to be important in ESP/EAP context because it enables practitioners and materials writers find out about their real learners' needs. Therefore, the aim of study explore need teaching reading English language teaching. has encouraged leaners' needs explored. Teacher involved doing analysis. The results demonstrate that EFL learners have difficulty especially ...

Abstract: This paper presents a proposal for pedagogical use of MT in English Specific Purpose (ESP) courses, aiming at investigating the efficiency this technology as support reading scientific texts FL. The theoretical approach is on ESP, and comprehension to ESP understand processing how knowledge can raise benefits academic purposes. In addition, we discussed corpus linguistics its relation...

The present study was an attempt to investigate the effect of meta-cognitive strategy (planning, self-monitoring) awareness raising instruction on reading comprehension of Iranian ESP learners. Participants of three groups each comprising of 21 Iranian male students studying “Civil Engineering” in “Islamic Azad University of Buin Zahra” were selected and assigned to three groups: two experiment...