Teachers’ Voice vs. Students’ Voice: A Needs Analysis Approach of English for Acadmic Purposes (EAP) in Iran

By Zohreh R. Eslami. 2010

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EAP plays a highly important role in countries where English is used mainly for academic purposes. However, EAP programs have been developed without conducting a systematic needs analysis from both the students’ and instructors’ perspective. The purpose of this study is to describe the perception that EAP students and instructors have of the problematic areas in EAP programs. A total of 693 EAP students majoring in different academic fields and 37 instructors participated in this study. Survey information included respondents’ perception the importance of problematic areas in EAP programs. The results show discrepancy between the perceptions of EAP learners in different academic fields and between learners and instructors. The study has implications for curriculum design and instructional delivery of EAP courses for college level students.

Subfields: Language and Linguistics, Literature and Literary Theory

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In Language and Linguistics

1. Paul Thompson
2. Ken Hyland
3. Douglas Biber
4. Jim McKinley
5. Shih-Chieh Chien
6. A. Molino
7. R. Ruegg
8. Shulin Yu

In Literature and Literary Theory

1. Paul Thompson
2. Ken Hyland
3. Raffaella Negretti
4. Douglas Biber
5. A. Molino
6. Jim McKinley
7. Shih-Chieh Chien
8. R. Ruegg

Citations in the corpus

• The Routledge Handbook of English for Academic Purposes (2016, background): “Differences may also appear within the same parties on the basis of the study programme (Eslami, 2010), and even the analysis of the many faces of the construct “needs” as necessities, lacks and wants may provide an inconsistent outcome (Liu et al.”