Students’ Need Analysis of English Reading Skills for Academic Purposes
Abstract: The study explores
students’ needs for English reading skills among students of English Language
Studies. It also explores the difficulties in reading skill for academic
purposes (English for research) faced by the students. The study is based on
the two basic aspects of exploring language needs: Target Situation Analysis
and Present Situation Analysis. The participants of the study are 13 graduate
students of English Language Studies of PostGraduate Program in the third
semester. Questionnaire is an instrument for data collection. Quantitative and
qualitative data were analyzed descriptively. The study showed that most of
students often have difficulties in reading English texts for academic
purposes. They want to improve their comprehension level through EAP course and
enable to improve their writing performance.
Author: Edi Wahyono, Dewi
Puspitasari
Journal Code: jppendidikangg160050
