A Needs Assessment Of Esp To Adult English Language Learners Sandford International School Adults Evening Efl Classes In Focus

The purpose of the study was to assess the needs of ESP to adult EFL learners; in focusing thernSandford International School’s adult EFL evening program. Teaching EFL to adult learners inrnthe evening class program has been started since three decades ago at Sandford School.rnHeadway English course has been taught from Elementary to Upper-Intermediate levels to adultrnlearners who joined the program to learn and use the language for different purposes. To achievernthe objective, questionnaires, interview and evaluating the Headway English course book andrndropout records were used as the main sources of the research. Adult learners’ questionnaire wasrndistributed to eighty-five students of which thirty-six returned the paper. All the sixteen EFLrnteachers have also filled in and returned the questionnaire. Five adult learners participated in therninterview. Among the many issues that were discussed in this research were the learners’ purposernof learning the language, their perceived importance of skills, their wants and lacks, thernemphasized skills, etc,. In addition, the general course materials used and the skills focused werernassessed to determine their suitability to the English needs of the adult EFL learners. Descriptivernstatistics (tables and bar charts) were employed in interpreting and analyzing the quantitativerndata while content analysis was applied to narrate the qualitative data. The results indicated thatrnthe perceived importance of English language skills by the learners is mismatched with what isrnbeing taught at Sandford EFL classes. Secondly, the English language skills the adult learnersrnwant to improve on and the skills that are given emphasis on actual teaching and learningrnpractice are completely different. Moreover, the study identified the adult EFL learners were notrnsatisfied enough in meeting their English language needs. As a result, the study reveals that therernis a need for English courses with an ESP orientation in order to be able to meet the specificrnneeds of the adult learners; (Intermediate and Upper- Intermediate levels) who believed theirrnexpectations were not met at all at Sandford International School evening class program.

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