English For Informatics Students: A Needs Analysis
Abstract
This study aims at finding out the Informatics students’ needs of English in one of the universities in Palopo. It focuses on investigating which English skills and language elements of English are crucial for the students. Moreover, another question arisen here is what type of syllabus suitable for the students. To answer these issues, a survey research was conducted by using an adopted questionnaire to gather data from 33 Informatics students and 20 Informatics lecturers. The results of this study reveal that listening and reading are the most crucial skills for the students to help them understand learning sources. Furthermore, the topics and the materials discussed in the texts should be related to IT, so the students can be familiar with the terms used in their major. Speaking and writing skills also needed by the students but merely the basic ones because English is not used as the language instruction in their classroom and the students are not required to write their assignments and their final project in English.
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