Abstract: This study aimed at analyzing the language needs for students of the High Institute of Administrative Services at workplace, Target Situation Analysis (TSA). Language needs at work place will be defined and compared to the current English language-training program applied in the institute to suggest more improvement by utilizing the most recent ESP theories in needs analysis particularly in target situation analysis TASA. To analyze the language needs at workplace the researcher developed a questionnaire current training program applied defined and evaluated in terms of effectiveness and productivity for student's future. after conducting a pilot surveying by distribution thirty-five questionnaires to students graduates from the institute at their work places the results were carefully studied to determine areas need more clarifications and questions need to be restructured to avoid ambiguity. A final revised questionnaire was built and distributed again to the same study samples. The questionnaire consists of 12 questions to elicit information about current training program nature, in terms of pre-training preparations, while training and post training methods and techniques, to determine whether the training program was designed to meet job language requirements and whether the training program is up to date to meet those requirements. The linguistics required at work place is determined by allocating some of the questionnaire's questions to provide for linguistics components needed at work place.
Keywords: Target situation needs. Present situation needs. Needs analysis, ESP.
Title: Designing an effective English for Special Purposes course for The High Institute of Administrative Services students based on their potential job language needs
Author: Hanaa Salem Hamad Al-Majren
International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research
ISSN 2348-3156 (Print), ISSN 2348-3164 (online)
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