An Analysis of English Learning Needs for Students at Makassar State University

Subhan Rahmat(1*), Nurdin Noni(2), Amirullah Abduh(3),

(1) Universitas Negeri Makassar
(2) Universitas Negeri Makassar
(3) Universitas Negeri Makassar
(*) Corresponding Author



Abstract


The present paper was aimed to reveal students’ need on English in Economic Education Study Program at Universitas Negeri Makassar. The research was conducted to discover learning needs of English in academics situation and target needs of the student on English Skills. The result of this need analysis are the series of students need in language aspect. This research applied the quantitative-qualitative method to gain the data and the source of data were 52 respondents. The instrument used in this research were questionnaire and interview. The result of this research showed that the Economic Education students need a specific English course related to the area of Economic. Learning English is very important for economic students to reach their objectives to develop their English skill. The need of English skills that are considered useful to accommodate the economic student both academic and target situation. The result of learning needs shows that Grammar and Self-Introduction are needed by the students and the learning method needed are learning with video and learning with picture. For the target needs, it is revealed that English play an important role in the working fields.


Keywords


Need analysis; Learning needs; Target needs.

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