Improving Speaking Skills during Technical English Classes
Improving Speaking Skills during Technical English Classes

Summary/Abstract: By the mid-1970s, textbook developers were beginning to focus more on learners'purposes, goals and expectations rather than on specialist language as the thrustengine leading technical English classes. The concept of need was becoming centralto language classes from all walks of life as a result from turning back to the essentialissue: what does this specific customer need? The approach of needs analysis clearlyreconsidered the place of needs as central to ESP. In order to investigate one’s needs,the target situation for which learners were being prepared has to be defined.According to Chambers (1980: 123) [...] needs analysis should be concerned with theestablishment of communicative needs and their realizations, resulting from ananalysis of the communication in the target situation- what I will refer to from nowon as target situation analysis (TSA).

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