The Need Analysis of IT Students in Learning English as Foreign
Language: A Small-Scale Study at Satya Wacana Christian University
Fita Khoiriyati Ilma
Abstract
In the global use of English in many fields, the need of English in different fields has been increasing since each field has different needs. In learning English, students in a certain field of study need to be equipped with English which is relevant to their needs.
To fulfill the need of English that is really suitable with the learners’ need, therefore, a need analysis is necessary to be done. Need analysis is seen as the ideal problems solving
in order to get to know the students’ need. The purpose of this study was to find out the
Information and Technology (IT) students’ need in their English learning process in order to support their future occupation in IT field. The participants of the study were three lecturer-participants, three graduate-participants and 100 students-participants of 2012 academic year from the IT Faculty of Satya Wacana Christian University (SWCU). In this study, the data were obtained from questionnaire and interview. The result of this study revealed three needs for IT students in learning English. The first need was to add the length of the meeting hours in English courses, the second one was to emphasize the listening, speaking and writing skill in the English course, and the third one was English need to be used more in English teaching and learning process.
