ESP FINAL TEST

NEED ANALYSIS

ENGLISH FOR ECONOMIC STUDENTS (TEXTBOOK)

Submitted as One of Final Test of English for Specific Purpose (ESP)

Taught by: Indah Muzdalifah, M.Pd

By:

RIYANTI

1488203020

ENGLISH EDUCATION DEPARTMENT

FACULTY OF TEACHERS TRAINING AND EDUCATION

UNIVERSITY OF LANCANG KUNING

2016

1.     PREFACE

            First of all, the writer’s thanks addressed for Almighty God by his blessing in accomplishing this paper. The second, the writers express gratitude for their parents who always pray for this paper finished well.

       ESP (English for Specific Purpose) is designed to know what the learner’s need. ESP is defined by Hutchinson and Waters (1987) as an   “approach to language teaching in which all decisions as to content and method are based on the learner’s reason for learning”. The title of this paper is “English for Economic Students in University of Lancang Kuning” It is analyzed for the purpose to accomplish the subject of ESP at college. How the economic students need English effective for them in both of their study and their work.

            The writers realize there are some mistakes in writing this paper. It is because the capability of the writers is limited. Anyhow, because of the support and encouragement of all parts, the creating of this paper finally finished in appropriate time.

            The writer hopes this paper will be useful, especially to writers their selves and to all of the readers and to be material of consideration to develop and improve the achievement in future.

Pekanbaru, June  09^th, 2016

                                                                                                                        The Writer

                                                                                                                          Riyanti

2. INTRODUCTION

2.1  What is ESP?

ESP is centered on the language appropriate to the activities of a given discipline. ESP according to Hutchinson and Waters (1987:19), “ESP is an approach to language teaching in which all decisions as to content and method are based on the learner’s reason for learning.” In this connection, Dudley-Evans (1998) explains that ESP may not always focus on the language for one specific discipline or occupation, such as English for Law, English for Economic, or English for Engineering.

           Dudley-Evans and St John (1998) modified Strevens’ definition of ESP:

A.  Absolute Characteristics:

a)      ESP is designed to meet specific needs of the learner

b)      ESP makes use of the underlying methodology and activities of the disciplines it serves

c)      ESP is centered on the language (grammar, lexis, register), skills, discourse and genres appropriate to these activities.

 B. Variable Characteristics:

a)      ESP may be related to or designed for specific disciplines

b)      ESP may use, in specific teaching situations, a different methodology from that of General English

c)      ESP is likely to be designed for adult learners, either at a tertiary level institution or in a professional work situation. It could, however, be for learners at secondary school level

d)     ESP is generally designed for intermediate or advanced students.

e)      Most ESP courses assume some basic knowledge of the language system, but it can be used with beginners.

How is English for Specific Purposes (ESP) different from English as a Second Language (ESL), also known as general English?

The most important difference lies in the learners and their purposes for learning English. ESP students are usually adults who already have some acquaintance with English and are learning the language in order to communicate a set of professional skills and to perform particular job-related functions. An ESP program is therefore built on an assessment of purposes and needs and the functions for which English is required .

ESP concentrates more on language in context than on teaching grammar and language structures. It covers subjects varying from accounting or computer science to tourism and business management. The ESP focal point is that English is not taught as a subject separated from the students' real world (or wishes); instead, it is integrated into a subject matter area important to the learners.

As a matter of fact, ESP combines subject matter and English language teaching. Such a combination is highly motivating because students are able to apply what they learn in their English classes to their main field of study, whether it be accounting, business management, or economics. Being able to use the vocabulary and structures that they learn in a meaningful context reinforces what is taught and increases their motivation.

The term "specific" in ESP refers to the specific purpose for learning English. Students approach the study of English through a field that is already known and relevant to them. This means that they are able to use what they learn in the ESP classroom right away in their work and studies. The ESP approach enhances the relevance of what the students are learning and enables them to use the English they know to learn even more English, since their interest in their field will motivate them to interact with speakers and texts.

3.     ANALYSIS OF THE TEXTBOOK

3.1 Faculty of Economic University of Lancang Kuning

University of Lancang Kuning has 9 faculties, one of them is Faculty of Economic. Faculty of Economic has 2 majors, Management and Accountancy. Based on the survey, each major has at least 200 students and they have different background study. They came from Senior High School or Vocational High School and most of them came from the different place, age, sex, and cultural background. Eventhough the came from the different background of study such as from Vocational High School they took engineering major, design, architecture, and so on, but most of them have a same purpose why they’ve been choose Economic as their faculty. The students who choose Economic as their faculty wish after they graduated they can work in the Bank, marketing, become an accountant, an economist, businessmen, or become professors. Because economics is arguably flexible.

3.2 Why are the learners Taking English Course?

As we know that nowdays english is one of the most important language in this world especially for the globalization era. Most of countries use english as their language, either first language or second language. English had become international language, which all aspects used it. There are so many reasons why ESP must be learned by the people especially for university or vocational students. One of the reason is, English is the most commonly used language among foreign language speakers. Throughout the world, when people with different languages come together they commonly use English to communicate. It's true that they've been learning english from Elementary School up to Senior High School, but the fact one is that they learned about general english only. They learned about alphabet untill tenses in english. But, after they went to the university and learned about english, it may be different with english in elementary, junior, and senior high school. Because, in university they are going to learn about english for specific purpose. In other hand, if the lecturer gives a materials that isn’t match with their major, they do not understand what english they will used in Economic or Business world, what vocabularies are used to, how to make right communication in Economic or Business language.

Developing English for Special Purpose (ESP) for Economis students in Universities today is a must, because of the development of global market that make it possible for foreign companies entering Indonesian market places. By the introduction of global marketing, and as a result of the internet technology developments, it makes everyone has an access for international market through internet facilities. As a result of this, Indonesian government has established english course in Universities in order to anticipate the effects of the internet development.

Based on the statement above, University of Lancang Kuning gives english subject in order to push the students’ ability of using english and hope that after graduated from the university and got bachelor degree, the students have skills of english at least how to use english on their work that related to English for Economic and anticipate the effects of the global market and internet development.

ESP material refers to the needs of students (students' needs) and the graduates themselves. The same thing was said by Mc Donough on definitions and concepts ESP. He argues "ESP Reviews those are courses where the syllabus and materials are determined in all essentials by prior analysis of the communication needs of the learners.". Donough’s opinion indicates that the materials, syllabus and objectives of the ESP should be designed and developed based on the needs of students. It means that in this case, the materials, syllabus, and the objectives should be designed and developed based on the needs of the students in Faculty of Economic in University of Lancang Kuning so they can learned english that appropriate or match with their major (Economic) and their needs.

Lecturing proccess in this Faculty, the lecture gave an English Textbook (Module) complete with explanations. This textbook given by the lecture for the students in order to make easier for them, easy on how to indicate the vocabularies and the students will ask questions when they do not understand what does it mean. So that this Textbook makes easy understanding for the students.

As a Economic students, it is important to see theirself as a developing professional in their particular discipline. In order to be such a professional, they need to sound and act like a practitioner who can express themselves articulately to peers. Indeed, individual consultations have highlighted that students need to be more precise and accurate in their communication. And English for Economic Students wil help them to have a good communication in english especially. In brief, the answer of Why ae the learners taking the English Course? because it is a compulsory not an option.

3.3 The Analysis of ESP by Looking their English Textbook

Before the writer give an opinion about this textbook, the writer wants to show up what references that used in this textbook. Actually there are five references here:

Azar, Betty,S, Understanding and Using English Grammar, 1998, USA: Prentice Hall.

Mack, Angela, The Language of Business, 1975, UK: British Broadcasting and Corporation.

McArthur, Tom, A Rapid Course in English for Students of Economic, 1990, Oxford.

Mead, Richard, English for Economics, 1985, Great Britain: Longman.

Methold,K and J. Tadman, Office to Office: Practical Business Communication, Longman.

Based on references above, you should be thought that “the textbook must be appropriate with the economic major”, ”is this textbook might be used for them? Is it appropriate with their major?” Am I right?

The answer is Yes. This textbook actually has good materials, compatible exercise, and good explanations are given by the lecture in this textbook. For the cover of this textbook, full of title and references. For the second page, the paper full of text or article about Different Economic System. For the next paper till the end, the paper full of materials about Grammar in English. The lecture gives and examples by using the vocabularies or phrases that related in Economic Language. For example: Ownership, Investment, Economic, Management, Logical Calculation, Business, etc. Everyone believes that those vocabularies support the students’ skill on how they used english in their future, especially after they graduated then they looking for a job. ESP is the most important one.

Therefore, ESP materials such as texts and exercises are very important.  This textbook has so many short articles about economic and used as an example that the lecture gave, in order to make the students easy understand about English for Economic Students eventhough they learned about Grammar in English.

Let’s see:

1.      Example text on English Textbook

DIFFERENT ECONOMIC SYSTEM Not all economic system is the same. The economic system of the USA differs greatly from the system of the USSR. The American system is based on private enterprise with private ownership of the means of production, while Russian system is communistic and is based upon the principle of Karl Marx the 19th century political economist. The economic ideologies of these two nations contrast very strongly. Britain is similar to the USA. It has an economic system based on private enterprise and private supplies of capital, which can be defined as surplus income available for investment in new business activites. Property in both the US and Britain can be owned by individual citizens and the citizens exercise considerable economic freedom of choice. They can choose what they want to do and how they want to earn their living.

Note: From the example above, the vocabularies or phrases that related with Economic vocabularies are marked by italics.

2.      Exercise on English Textbook

EXERCISE Fill the blanks with the provided words! Investment              Economic                    Production Organization           National                      Priority Mixture                   Personal                       Scientific Logical

1.      In business, ......... calculation is needed to get profit. 2.      To get economic growth, we need ......... from some well-established companies. 3.      Tourism is one of .......... program to get income from visitors. 4.      Communistic system doesn’t recognize ......... belonging of any individual. 5.      Beside marketing, stable ......... of the goods is also important to guarantee the supply. 6.      Latest ........ inventions play important role to increase production.

4.      CONCLUSION

ESP is an approach to language teaching in which all decisions as to content and method are based on the learner’s reason for learning. In this opportunity, the Writer tried to make an analysis about English for Economic Students in University of Lancang Kuning. Economic Faculty actually has 2 majors, Management and Accountancy which each majors has at least 200 students per semester and they came from different background of learning, society, age, sex, culture, etc. the Writer analyzed it by looking the English Textbook (Module) which given by the lecture for the students. Page by page the textbook is full of english vocabularies which related to English for Economic.

In terms of the contents of the textbook and after looked up the examples above, either vocabularies, articles (paraghraph), explanations, or exercises, this textbook actually appropriate with English for Economic. The lecture made this textbook completely, she/he used many references in order to make this textbook quite perfect for economic students. In brief, the Writer conclude that Faculty of Economis used a right textbook to support their students’ ability in english and it has big impact for their comprehension of english especially in economic side. Students train themselves to understand the terms and concepts of economic in the english for economic students through the textbook and learned in one semester.