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This article aims to investigate and analyze the perceived English language needs of engineers who want to develop their job position through English Language in their workplaces such as public relations, technical and operational, engineering support of production, planning and development, financial, general accounting, and legal affairs. In today’s competitive world, the economy needs more people with higher level skills in the workplace. Taking into consideration the specializations mentioned above, the article focuses on the perceived needs of engineers concerning Business English, not general English. Due to the business and economic development of the last decades in Iran, English has rapidly become the language used all over the world. Developing an English for Specific Purposes (ESP) course in their workplaces is another purpose of this study. Questionnaire, interviews, and observations were used to gather information in this research. Engineers’ expectations, managers’ demands, economy’s needs ask for more reliable methods to provide a better learning in workplace situation. Finally, based on the findings obtained from this study, it can be concluded that workplace courses have lots of effect on the engineers’ job and development and by passing the time they ask for more variable ESP courses relating to their job.
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Therefore, the purpose of this study is to investigate the effectiveness of different English language needs of engineers in order to provide empirical data to develop their professional skills in their workplaces.
Secondly, ESP courses develop from a needs analysis which aims to specify what exactly it is that students have to go through the medium of English, and a number of characteristics which explain that ESP courses are generally constrained by a limited time period in which their objectives have to be achieved and are taught to adults in similar classes in terms of the work or specialist studies that the students are involved in.
Distribution of Participants Based on Their Gender Procedure and instrumentation In this research, a questionnaire, an interview, and observation were used as the data collection instruments with the purpose of finding out which areas of the English language needed more attention and predict the most necessary subject matters to be included in the syllabus of ESP courses.
Evaluation page of the questionnaire (View the image of this page) Results of the study The present research aimed to investigate the effectiveness of engineers’ English workplace courses in different sectors of ESCO.
Based on the present study and the related studies such as Al-Tamimi and Shuib (2009), Moiinvaziri (2014), Nezamabadi (2014), and Barkhordari and Chalak (2017), it should be mentioned that an ESP course curriculum should adjust learners’ demands through preparing meaningful experience with language and emphasize tasks and activities that will ease the process of learning.
The information that you provide will be used for research and publication purposes only and it is very important for identifying English language needs and to develop the courses based on the results.