Evaluation Of Petroleum And Geological Engineering Esp Course From Students’ View Points At Ouargla University In Algeria

Abstract

The pressing problems encountered in teaching English for Specific Purposes (henceforth, ESP) at the University of Ouargla and particularly in the Faculty of Hydrocarbons, Renewable Energies, Earth and Universe Sciences (FHREEUS) are the misapprehension of the ESP term and the misapplication of the ESP course. The researcher attempts to identify students’ language purposes, their lack and preferences concerning English language courses. In an increasingly challenging context, it is necessary to assess the current ESP courses in order to identify and understand the degree to which they are useful to petroleum and geological engineering graduates and meet their ever-changing needs. Based on the conviction that students’ needs are of crucial importance in the evaluation of the ESP course, we asked 93 students at FHREEUS, at the University of Ouargla, to express their perceptions and suggestions as to how they prefer learning English language. In practice, the appropriate tools to evaluate ESP courses are questionnaires, interviews, experimental results, etc. Thus, a descriptive evaluative method that involves a data-gathering questionnaire was implemented to make a set of practical inferences to the research hypothesis. The results revealed that a vast majority of students responded negatively to the effectiveness of the ESP courses in terms of reflecting their English language needs. The study clearly indicated the requirement and pressing need of ESP course based on students’ wants and expectations