Identifying the English language needs of humanities students at Dhaka University

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  • Tazin Aziz Chaudhury Assistant Professor, Dept. of English, Dhaka University

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https://doi.org/10.3329/dujl.v2i4.6900

Keywords:

Needs Analysis, Evaluation, Language skills and sub-skills, Course usefulness and difficulty, Classroom teaching style

Abstract

Till recently freshmen at all the departments of the Faculty of Humanities of Dhaka University compulsorily attended a centrally conducted English language skills development course titled the English Foundation Course. Since 2006 the Foundation Course was discontinued and replaced by individual courses conducted by the respective departments. However neither the English Foundation Course nor the present individual courses were designed on the basis of Needs Analysis - the primary pre-requisite of any curriculum design nor have they ever been evaluated. This article presents the findings of a formal needs analysis and evaluation conducted by the researcher.

Key Words: Needs Analysis; Evaluation; Language skills and sub-skills; Course usefulness and difficulty; Classroom teaching style

DOI: 10.3329/dujl.v2i4.6900

Dhaka University Journal of Linguistics Vol.2(4) August 2009 pp.59-91

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2011-01-18

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Chaudhury, T. A. (2011). Identifying the English language needs of humanities students at Dhaka University. Dhaka University Journal of Linguistics, 2(4), 59–91. https://doi.org/10.3329/dujl.v2i4.6900

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