Entrenched as the dominant global language in the internationalization of business and for
multinational corporations, English language has brought and continues to bring co-partners
and co-workers together so they can share a common vision, exchange ideas and drive
collective agendas. Proficiency in English language, apart from being a challenge, has
also become an opportunity—a key competitive differentiator for individual workers,
corporations and entire economic systems.
Objectives
The aims of the study are:
- To have an overview of the needs and thereby suggest an outline for English
writing course to a group of engineers to be employed or already employed.
- To carry out a needs analysis to determine the need for which a learner or a
group of learners requires a language and arranging the needs according to the
priorities (Richards et al., 1992, p. 242).
- To determine the key components necessary for reinforcement of learning or
designing a short course to accommodate the needs.
- To investigate, in particular, the writing needs based on the experience of the
teachers teaching engineers, academics and technical educators who are
involved in the orientation program for engineers and observing their enormous
need for developing written English skills.
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