Esp Needs Analaysis of Undergraduate Engineering Students: A Case Study of Multan

The present study is focused at investigating English language needs of undergraduate engineering students in Multan. In this study effort was made to explore the English usage frequency, its significance for engineering students, their current level of English competence and their English language needs. For the purpose of finding out English language needs of the engineering students quantitative approach has been applied in this study. Data was gathered using questionnaire as data collection tool. Research population was selected from two universities for gathering data considering them the main stakeholders of this discourse community. A questionnaire was developed for the collection of data, more precisely; closed- ended questions were distributed to 120 engineering students in order to identify their English language needs and their perceptions towards the usefulness of the current English language teaching materials in use. The results showed that these students have positive attitudes towards learning English language. Furthermore, productive skills (speaking and writing) have been rated as the skills that engineering students want to develop most. Further, the study found that the current teaching materials in use do not meet students' needs hoping that the findings of this study would be the basis for designing more feasible ESP teaching materials that would meet students' needs.