APPENDIX 1QUESTIONNAIRE

This survey questionnaire aims at investigating students’ needs in ESP course at Business

Management Department of Vietnam Forestry University. The researcher highly appreciates your

support by completing this questionnaire. Your answer is of great value to the research. The data

collected is confidential and is used in the research paper only. Please fill it out and give it back to

the researcher.

Thank you for your co-operation.

I PREVIOUS LEARNING EXPERIENCE

1. How long have you been studied English?A. 1-2 years B. 2-5 years C. 5-9 years D over 9 years

2. Where did you learn English?A. at school B at language center C. by yourself D. with tutor

3. Why have you learned English?A. it is compulsory B. you like English C. you need it D. for fun

4. What level of English are you at?A. Elementary B. Pre-inter C. Intermediate D. upper-inter

Listening

Speaking

Reading

Writing

Grammar

5. What subject knowledge do you know?A. nothing B. a little C. enough D. a lot

6. What teaching style are you used to?A. Individual B. Pair work C. small group D. Whole class

II. TARGET NEEDS

1. What do you learn English for?A. for study B. for work C. For study D. for hobby

2. How will the English be used?Medium A. speaking B reading C. writing D. Listening

Channel A. Telephone B. face to face C. internet D. mail

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Types of texts A. academic B. lecture C. technical manuals D. reports

3. Who will you use English with?A. college B. teacher C. friends D. customer

4. Where will the language be used?A. lecture theatre B. at work C. workshop D. library

5. How often will the language be used?A. seldom B. sometimes C. often D. frequently

6. What is your motivation in using English?A. I like it B. promotion prospectsC. respect my teacher D. want to improve English

III LEARNING NEEDS

1. What is your attitude to English or to the cultures of the English-speaking world?A. it is boring B. it is difficult C. it is interesting D. it is funny

2. Why are you taking the course?A. compulsory B. for job C. enjoyable D. for study

3. What are your strengths and weaknesses in a foreign language?Poor fair good advanced

Listening

Speaking

Reading

Writing

Grammar

4. What English skill do you need to improve to meet your professional goals?Not at all little some very much

Listening

Speaking

Reading

Writing

Grammar

Pronunciation

Vocabulary

5. What methodology will appeal to you?A. teacher-centered B. student-centered

6. How do you like learning?  A. individually  B. in pairs  C. in small groups   D. in one large group

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7. You like learning ( more than one answer is possible) 

A.  by memory?

B.  by problem solving?

C.  by getting information yourself?

D.  by listening to tapes / cassettes and taking notes?  

E.  by reading and taking notes?  

F.  by copying from the chalkboard or overhead projector?  

G.  by repeating what you hear?    7. What resources are available?

A. teachers B. books C. internet D. mass media

9. What are your opportunities for out-of-class activities?A. None B Few C. Enough D. a lot

10. How many hours a week do you want to study English?A. 1-3 hours B. 3-5 hours C. 5-7 hours D. more than 7 hours

11. Do you want to do homework?A. yes B. no

If 'Yes', how much time a week do you spend on doing homework?A. 1-3 hours B. 3-5 hours C. 5-7 hours D. more than 7 hours

12. What do you think you will achieve?A. Improving your vocabulary and being able to use words appropriately in different contexts.

B. Familiarizing l with different rhetorical functions of Scientific English.

C. Developing key techniques that could be adopted while reading texts.

D. Developing listening skills for academic and professional purposes.

E. Acquiring the ability to speak effectively in English in real life situations.

F. Realizing the meaning potential of a text and becoming familiar with different reading

strategies.

G. Acquiring interpretative and study skills, including library and Internet reference skills.

H. Getting trained in organized academic and professional writing.

I. Developing aural competence and oral fluency of learners.

J. Achieving proficiency in the effective use of language in various authentic career-related

situations.

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APPENDIX 2

QUESTIONAIRE FOR TEACHERS

This survey questionnaire aims at investigating instructors’ performance in ESP course at

Business Management Department of Vietnam Forestry University. The researcher highly

appreciates your support by completing this questionnaire. Your answer is of great value to the

research. The data collected is confidential and is used in the research paper only. Please fill it out

and give it back to the researcher.

Thank you for your co-operation.

Name:

Course:

INSTRUCTIONS:

a. You may choose more than one answer:

b. After each section , there will be space for you to include any additional comments

c. The scale used to determine the frequency of use is as follows

How often? Always Sometimes Rarely

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I. UNIT ORGANIZATION:

1. What criteria do you take into account to organize your teaching units?

a. Around a theme

b. According to language functions

c. In relation to the vocabulary of the text

d. Degree of difficulty of the discourse

e. Other

II. ACTIVITIES:

2. How often do you organize the activities of the teaching units?

a. Pre-reading activities

b. Reading activities

c. Post-reading activities

d. Other:

III.LESSON PLAN:

3. For your everyday lesson how do you…………

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a. Use a detailed lesson plan?

b. Use a general lesson plan?

c. Just follow the content of the text?

d. Other.

IV. PRE-READING ACTIVITIES:

4. For what purpose do you use the pre-reading activities?

a. To motive the students at the beginning of the unit.

b. To introduce the general theme of the reading

c. To deal with the difficult vocabulary present in the reading

d. To deal with difficult grammatical structures

e. To familiarize students with the concepts and ideas

that will appear in the reading.

f. To teach any of the objectives of the text

5. What kind of activities do you have in this pre-reading stage?

a. You ask students to scan for specific information

b. You ask them to skim for the general idea

c. You ask them to read the text in order to discuss the content through general discussion or

open-ended questions.

d. You deal with vocabulary:

1) You give students a list of the difficult words and ask them to look up in a dictionary

2) You provide them with excerpts of the reading with the difficult words underlined and

ask them to guess the meaning from context.

3) You ask them to provide synonyms or antonyms of these words.

4) You give students the difficult words and provide the same words in a different

context (from the original text) which will clarify their meaning.

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6. In relation to the pre- reading activities, what proportion of the time do you assign to the pre-

reading activities?

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a. 25% b. 50% c.75% d. Other:

V. READING ACTIVITIES

7. What kind of activities do you have in the reading stage? How often?

(Explain how you go about it in the spaces provided. Please be brief)

a. Skimming

b. Scanning

c. Content comprehension

d. Discourse comprehension

e. Information transfer

f. Summary

g. Synthesis

h. Expansion

i. Other

8. Do you carry out the following activities?

a. Group work

b. Individually

c. Other

9. How do you sequence the activities mentioned before? (Use the same letters)

………………………………………………………………………………………………

VI. POST-READING ACTIVITIES:

10. For what purpose do you use post-reading activities? How often?

a. To reinforce:

a.1. Vocabulary

a.2. Reading skills dealt with previously

a.3. Grammatical aspects

a.4. Concepts related to the content

a.5. Other:

b. To expand any of the concepts dealt with in the reading

c. To summarize the contents of the unit

d. Other

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APPENDIX 3DATA COLLECTED FROM STUDENTS (158 STUDENTS)

This table provides the data collected from questionnaire to students in an effort to find out students needs in ESP course at Business Management Department of Vietnam Forestry University.

Question A B C D EPrevious learning experience

1 14 112 32 02 158 76 39 163 158 20 126 204 158 (L&S) 158 (W&G)

97 (R)67 (R)

5 23 117 186 39 76 76 158Target needs

1 158 67 67 202 Medium Channel

3910

15876

158158

39158

3 39 158 158 764 158 158 158 1585 56 92 106 20 158 96 96Learning needs1 158 ( L&S)

120 (W&G)158 (R)38 (W&G)

2 158 3 15 113 304 21 1375 22 130 130 36 1306 158 158 49 497 1588 1589 47 (1-3 hours) 11110A 158B 158C 79D 79E 79F 45G 45H 36I 36J 12

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