Speaker: Aybolgan Borasheva
Conducting a needs analysis is vital for designing effective English for Specific Purposes (ESP) programs. The speaker highlighted that conducting a needs analysis involves identifying learners’ language needs, goals, and specific requirements within their professional domain. The speaker talked about the steps such as identifying the learners, collecting relevant data through surveys, interviews, observations, and document analysis, analyzing the data to identify common themes and language needs, setting clear objectives, and designing the ESP program accordingly. The speaker noted that by tailoring the program to learners’ specific needs, their language proficiency and effectiveness in their professional field can be enhanced. And the speaker elaborated on methods like surveys, interviews, observations, and document analysis are employed to gather information and gain insights into learners’ language needs and requirements. Then she shared available resource for further reading on conduction need analysis in ESP field.