Investigating Importance of ESPLanguage For Learners and Computer Trainees

Abstract

The study aims at investigating the importance of English language for computer learners and trainees ( ESP ),describing the language needs of computer learners trainees and examines the objectives of the ESP courses specific to computer trainees then investigates the needs of a group of computer trainees in order to see whether the objectives of the ESP courses are in line with the subject matter learners’ needs. Needs analysis is described as an act of finding out the necessity for which the trainees or learners desire language in order to study efficiently. This due to the fact that the English language is an official language in Sudan, So,the computer trainees find it difficult to use English for the Computer learners and trainees appropriately. The importance of study suggests ways of tackling the difficulty in order to the learners and trainees be able to use computer easily and to be motivated and committed to the act of learning the computer jargon. The research methodology depends on the descriptive analytical approach , which depends on the primary data. The primary data is collected from the learners and trainees to evaluate and find out the learners and trainees’ strengths and weaknesses at English performance and language through the questionnaire and pilot-tested on a sample. The secondary data is collected from references , journals and websites. The findings reveal that while communicative needs are beneficial in increasing verbal interactions between learners; the grammatical needs are useful in discriminating grammatical categories and in their functions and in learning simple sentences; and the lexical needs are useful in mastering the code used in the computer. Grammatical, communicative and lexical needs are important to the learners in order to attain proficiency in their training and their study . In order to improve the learners and trainees’ English language and to achieve the objectives, the researcher recommends the following: Learners should pay more communicative needs attention when it comes to computer learning, because more of its languages are extracted from communicative basics. The computer learners need the correct forms of tenses , spelling and simple sentences in learning effectively . Jargon should be learned in order to cope with the lexical needs in computer learning.