THE ROLE OF NEED ANALYSIS IN TEACHING ESP FOR NURSING

this paper emphasizes the significant role of need analysis in teaching ESP for nursing. Teaching ESP for nursing cannot be separated from the analysis of the learners’ needs to join the course, because they have their own purpose in studying English. The expectation is really different from general course learners. Dealing with the appropriate purpose is really crucial. It has impact in creating syllabus and lesson plan for the course. The need analysis explores the subjects mainly concerns. Indeed, this paper explores more in target needs and learning needs as basic foundation of the course. Questionnaires, interviews, and informal consultations with learners are used to gather information of this study. The research finds out majority of the students are willing to get improvement in speaking skill especially for practical communication and vocabulary mastery of nursing/ medical terminologies. Here, the model of need analysis for creating ESP syllabus and lesson plan for nursing is shown. At last, the benefit of this paper is to get clear description of maximizing the role of need analysis for creating effective course design for nursing