NEEDS ASSESSMENT AND TEACHING ENGLISH FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES

Authors

  • D.K. Nurmuratova

    Uzbekistan State World Languages University Integrated English Language Teaching Department

Keywords: English for specific purposes, English as a foreign language, English for general purposes, practitioner, assesment, authentic, stakeholders, needs analysis

Abstract

The article considers the importance of needs analysis (NA) for ESP classes and describes the types of NA. Besides it contains the result of an experiment held with Uzbekistan economy students during March-May in 2014. The ESP classes were based on the received Needs Assessment held with economy students in the specialty «Accounting business» with non- native English speaking background.

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