This thesis reports the result of an exploratory study on the English communicative needs by graduates from mechanical engineering and electronic department at HaUI, who are working as technical workers at 2 trans-national corporations. It attempts to find their common communicative needs at workplaces in order to inform curriculum design. Simultaneously, it explores the challenges in using those common communicative needs during their working tasks and also gives suggestionsfor an effective ESP syllabus design. The data was collected by means of questionnaires by handing them out to 100 technical workers at 2 trans-national companies. The results of this study have shown that their common communicative needs and their difficulties in using English at workplaces as well as given positive contributions to ESP syllabus design.
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This thesis reports the result of an exploratory study on the English communicative needs by graduates from mechanical engineering and electronic department at HaUI, who are working as technical workers at 2 trans-national corporations. It attempts to find their common communicative needs at workplaces in order to inform curriculum design. Simultaneously, it explores the challenges in using those common communicative needs during their working tasks and also gives suggestionsfor an effective ESP syllabus design. The data was collected by means of questionnaires by handing them out to 100 technical workers at 2 trans-national companies. The results of this study have shown that their common communicative needs and their difficulties in using English at workplaces as well as given positive contributions to ESP syllabus design.
