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meetthedifierentneedsandinterestsoflearners)arethethreefactors,according
toGatehouse(2001),whichsignificantlycontributedtotheemergenceofEnglish
forSpecificPurposes.Languagestudieshavemovedonfromtheimageofhobby
andthesatisfactionofintellectualkudosandarenowviewedasavaluabletool
infacilitatingsuccessinprofessionallife,thereforespecifyingthesituationsin
whichthestudentwillusethelanguageisofcriticalimportance.Tisobjective
maybeaccomplishedbymeansofneedsanalysiswhichis,asHutchinsonand
Waters(1987:54)claim,utheirreducibleminimumofanESPapproachtocourse
design[ł]sinceitistheawarenessofcoursedesignofatargetsituationthat
distinguishestheESPlearnerfromthelearnerofGeneralEnglish.”
Eventhoughthereisaconsiderableamountofliterature(Widdowson1983;
Brindley1989;Benesch1996;Long1996;Spratt1999;Benesch2001;Deutch
2003;Basturkmen2006)onthecriticalapproachtoneedsanalysisandsome
abundantproblematicareasarementionedlikethefactthatobjectiveneeds
maynotmatchsubjectiveneeds,orperspectivesandperceptionsofneedsdifier
andareofenincontradiction,orassomescholarsclaimitisatoolthatmay
servetheinterestsoftheinstitutionsattheexpenseoflearners,stillnumerous
scholarsandauthors(Munby1978;HutchinsonandWaters1987;Robinson
1991;West1994;Jordan1997;Dudley-EvansandStJohn1998;Deutch2003;
Jeong2005;Cowling2007;Songhori2008;KassimandAli2010;Wozniak
2010;Akbari2011;Tsao2011;Lockwood2012)considerneedsanalysis(also
knownasneedsassessment)acrucialinstrumentindesigningandconducting
anylanguagecourse,notnecessarilyanESPcourse.Jeong(2005)remarksthat
thenecessityforneedsanalysisarisesfromtheassumptionthatwhenlanguage
teachingisfocusedonwhatlearnersareinterestedin,languagelearningis
mostefiective.Furthermore,asBachaandBahous(2008)highlight,aneeds
analysisfacilitatestherecognitionofwhatstudentsneedtostudyandwhat
teachersneedtoteachhencecontributestoaconsiderableextenttoefiective
ESP(thusEnglishforLegalPurposes)syllabusdesign,itsdevelopmentand
implementationandbetterhelpsstudentstoachievelearningoutcomes.
2.Purposeandcontextoftheresearch
TeaimoftheresearchprojectwastoinvestigatehowteachersofEnglish
forlegalpurposesperceivetheneedsoftheirlawstudentsintermsofcourse
content,skillsthatwouldbeessentialatprospectiveworkormethodology
used(i.e.learningstrategies,aids,theroleofgrammar,etc.).Teteacherof
Englishforlegalpurposesisassumedherenotonlyasalinguistteaching
LegalEnglishtolawstudents(hereinaferreferredtoaslanguagespecialist)
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