A Comparative Study on the Perceived Opinions of Teachers and Learners in Esp Context

Abstract

Recent developments in technology and science stimulate the individuals to raise themselves to be a qualified person in the necessary field. In particular, people make an effort to be able to have a good job and fulfil the requirements of their professions. Knowing a foreign language is also one of these requirements for the individuals. Accordingly, learners are supposed to master the foreign language skills to meet the needs of the labour market.The aim of this study is to identify and compare the opinions of the tourism vocational secondary students and their English teachers on the students’ linguistic and occupational needs and academic performances in ESP courses. A 100 second-year tourism students and ten English teachers in vocational secondary schools involved in this study. This is a descriptive survey study, and the quantitative data were collected through the data collection tool which is a semi-structured questionnaire. Then, descriptive, and inferential statistics were employed in analysing the data. The findings show that the teachers and students need ESP sources and materials. Moreover, it can be concluded that many students need to develop their speaking and listening skills since they will use these skills potently in their future careers.