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    Determining The English Language Needs of Surveying Technology Students: Tegbareed Technical and Vocational Education Training College In Focus
    (Addis Ababa University, 2009-06) Melaku, Getahun; Regassa, Taye (PhD)
    The main objective of this study was to determine the English language needs of Surveying Technology students' academic and occupational setting. So as to effectuate this, five groups of respondents were identified. Surveying Technology students, surveying technology instructors, English language instructors taken from the teaching staff and on-thejob surveying graduates and their employers were taken from other nonteaching staff. From each group, respondents were selected using purposive, available and random sampling techniques. As a result, 80 students, 9 surveying instructors, 8 English language instructors, 12 onthe- job surveying graduates and 2 employers were taken as a source of information. Qualitative and quantitative data were obtained from these subjects mainly through questionnaire, interview and focus-group discussion. Questionnaires were distributed to the 4 groups of subjects. Interview and focus- group discussion were conducted with the English language instructors and survey students. The questionnaires were designed for surveying students, surveying instructors and English language instructors to elicit information about the academic situation. The interview for English language instructors and focus-group discussion were designed to get more information about the academic situation which couldn't be obtained through the questionnaires. The questionnaire for the On-Job and surveying graduates and interview for the employers were to obtain information about the language needs of the learners in the occupational setting. English language macro skills and a number of activities which were thought to be widely used in the academic and occupational situations were selected and presented to the respondents to rate their frequency, and importance level as well as students' respective abilities in performing them. The findings indicated the existence of a considerable gap between the type and the extent of English language students are expected to use in both academic and occupational careers and the English language course being offered. Therefore, taking this gap into consideration recommendations have been made.