地方高校商科專業學生英語學習需求調查

俞思霞　楊軍

【摘要】非英語專業學生如果在英語技能方面有特長，不但有利于學生自身今后的就業、學習或深造，也有助于地方高校本身在新形勢下的轉型和升級。本文以某地方院校商科學生為例，對他們在英語學習方面的需求將行了調查和研究。

【關鍵詞】需求分析 商科類專業 英語學習

College English is one of the compulsory courses for non-English Majors. It will become a useful weapon for them if they can master one or more skills of the language. However， many college students complain that they are not satisfied with the current English syllabus designed for them. So this paper mainly analyzes their learning desire of the business majors.

1. Literature Review

The study on the literature shows that there are various definitions and classifications of needs because the researchers' perspectives， research backgrounds and research methodologies are different and the criteria for classifying needs are not the same. Widdowson believes that “needs” refers to the knowledge or ability the learners have to master in their present study or future work， in other words， it is the ability learners should master at the end of a language course； besides， it is the societys requirement and expectation for a language course； lastly， it also refers to “lacks” which means the knowledge the learners are lack of. Different from this kind of definition， the process directed researchers focus on the learners.

2. Research Design

1）Objectives of the survey

This research tries to get a clear view of the situation of business class professional students English learning needs. And this paper try to through the questionnaire to know several aspects as followed：

First is the interests of business class professional students in college English learning； second their motivation in college English learning； the third point is whether business class students was satisfied with the college English course or not.

2）Subjects of the survey

The subjects surveyed are freshman and sophomore majoring in business. College English course is a compulsory subject for them. Their ages are from 18 to 21. The ratio of man and woman is 2：8. The author sent out 200 questionnaires altogether， and collected 186 pieces of valid questionnaire back.

3）Date Analysis

For the question： “If you passed the CET 4， what would you want to learning in your follow-up courses？”， the answers are shown in the following chart：

According to the survey， we can easily see that 52.15% students express their willingness to learn subsequent courses， which means we need to think about the reform in making syllabus.

As for the three favorite courses they would like to learn as their subsequent courses of the College English， 60.2% choose Business English， 54.3% choose courses related with spoken English and more than 40% students choose courses related with translation or interpretation.

Moreover， most students support the idea of hierarch teaching due to their different levels in English. And one main reason is that they think this is more suitable for them to keep up with the procedure of teaching and more convenient to communicate with their teachers.

3. Conclusion

By doing the survey， we get to know the real needs of the students of business majors. And it is essential for the administrative department and College English teachers to think highly of their needs in learning English and reform the current syllabus to meet their needs.

References：

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作者簡介：

俞思霞（1993- ），湖州師范學院20120532班學生。

楊軍（1979- ），甘肅甘谷人，碩士，講師，湖州師范學院外國語學院。