Exploring the Language Learning Needs across Different Levels: A Case for the Iranian Undergraduate and Postgraduate Genetics Students

Autor/inn/en	Boroujeni, Fatemeh Abbasian; Ketabi, Saeed
Titel	Exploring the Language Learning Needs across Different Levels: A Case for the Iranian Undergraduate and Postgraduate Genetics Students
Quelle	In: English Language Teaching, 5 (2012) 7, S.164-174 (11 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1916-4742
Schlagwörter	Graduate Students; Undergraduate Students; Student Needs; Second Language Learning; Interviews; Questionnaires; Statistical Analysis; Teacher Attitudes; Student Surveys; Genetics; Science Education; Foreign Countries; Qualitative Research; English for Special Purposes; Needs Assessment; Iran + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Graduate Study; Student; Students; Aufbaustudium; Graduiertenstudium; Hauptstudium; Studentin; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Fragebogen; Statistische Analyse; Lehrerverhalten; Schülerbefragung; Humangenetik; Naturwissenschaftliche Bildung; Ausland; Qualitative Forschung; Bedarfsermittlung
Abstract	The present research was conducted with the aim of examining the foreign language learning needs of graduate and postgraduate students of Genetics in Iran in order to help students to meet the growing present and emerging future language demands. The study was designed on a qualitative-quantitative survey basis using interviews and questionnaires which was administered to 35 undergraduate students, 18 postgraduate students, and 4 subject-specific instructors. To see whether the graduate and postgraduate students differed significantly in terms of their language needs, an independent sample t-test was used. Chi-square analysis was also conducted to examine the possible discrepancies across the perceived needs of the students and their parallel counterparts in the instructors' corpus. The findings of the study revealed some minor discrepancies with regard to the language needs and perceptions across different levels. The chi-square results also revealed very few differences between the students' and instructors' perceived needs. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01