iNELTAL Conference Proceedings The International English Language Teachers and Lecturers Conference 2019 ESP NEEDS ANALYSIS: CASE STUDY ENGINEERING PROGRAMS STATE POLYTECHNIC OF MADURA Nurir Rohmah Politeknik Negeri Madura
[email protected] Abstract: Selecting, implementing, and evaluating are among many steps of preparing for teaching materials. It is done as an attempt to fulfill student’s learning needs. This process is later called as investigation on students’ needs and is considered a necessary step in designing ESP courses. This study is an effort to discover the learning needs of students in all 3 departments (shipbuilding, heavy equipment mechanical and industrial electrical engineering) at the State Polytechnic of Madura. To fulfill such aim, questionnaires, FGD, and interviews were used as instruments of data collection. The data later were analyzed based on needs of analysis from the theory of Duddley-Evans and St. John (1998). The study involves the participation of students, 2 English lecturers, stakeholders’ representative and head of departments. The result of this study revealed that the students have a variety of learning needs such as learning in pairs or groups, lab/field works, and content specific tasks. It was also revealed (for example, English for shipbuilding engineering) that choosing the certain topics such as description on types of ships, simulation on navigation and safety manuals also plays important attention to the stakeholders because English has been widely used as a tool of communication at workplace setting. It was also discovered that the extent of ESP needs learning by the students was very high, about 75% of students thought ESP courses are useful for the future career.