Proceedings of the International Conference on English Language and Teaching (ICOELT 2022)

A Need Analysis of English for Specific Purpose Teaching Material for Nursing Students at STIKES Mercubaktijaya Padang

Authors
Nurul Asfa Riza1, *, Ratmanida1
1English Department, FBS Universitas Negeri Padang, Padang, Sumatera Barat, 25131, Indonesia
*Corresponding author. Email: asfarizanurul0@gmail.com
Corresponding Author
Nurul Asfa Riza
Available Online 30 December 2023.
DOI
10.2991/978-2-38476-166-1_41How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Need analysis; Teaching material; Nursing
Abstract

English for Specific Purposes (ESP) has been discussed for a long time around the world in the field of English Language Teaching (ELT). Teaching English based on students’ needs is important particularly for those learners who learn English beyond the academic purposes such as vocational high school students. This research aimed at identifies needs analysis of English for nursing students at Stikes Mercubaktijaya Padang. The focus of this study was findings students’ needs in learning English for nurse, where teaching learning material relevant to students’ needs, current material was provided students with the skill to deal with their English references which are relevant to their needs. The data were collected through questionnaire. The informant of this research were students and lecturer. The result of this study shows that speaking as the most important skill to nursing students. Lecturer in teaching English is not enough referred to students’ needs however the materials were not fully applied. Doing analyzing of language needs in English for students for specific purposes is recommended to meet the diversified needs of the students and have to revise material based on students’ needs.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the International Conference on English Language and Teaching (ICOELT 2022)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
30 December 2023
ISBN
978-2-38476-166-1
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/978-2-38476-166-1_41How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2023 The Author(s)
Open Access
Open Access This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits any noncommercial use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made.

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