a. Learners’ Goal
Learners’ goal means the students’ aim or purpose in the English learning process. Below is the table that presents the Pharmacy Study
Programme students’ view about their goals in learning English.
Table 9: The Purpose of Learning English No.
Statements Items
N F
1. I learn English
in school in order to ...
be able to communicate appropriately both in oral and
written English. 36
22 61.11
help me in the academic activities future work.
36 21
58.33 get good scores in the report
card. 36
15 41.67
pass the National Examination UN.
36 13
36.11 support my skills in the field
pharmacy. 36
9 25.00
others. 36
Table 9 shows that 61.11 of the whole respondents stated that their learning goal is to be able to communicate appropriately in both oral and
written English. In the interview, a student said that she wanted to be able speak English appropriately and write correct English sentences in her
future academic activities. She stated that English is an international language that is used broadly in the world, and explained that she wanted
to be good at it. The second highest percentage of the whole respondents shows that
the respondents’ learning goal is to help them in the academic activities future work as pharmacy technicians. In general, vocational high school
stu dents’ purpose after their graduation is to work in the field that they
studied, using the skills and knowledge they learned at school. Some students also plan to continue their study to a higher level and they know
that English will be very important.
Table 10: The Goal of Learning English No.
Statements Items
N F
2. In my future
work in the field of
pharmacy, I will use
English to ... understand words terms of
pharmacy in English. 36
25 69.44
understand steps, procedures or instructions related to my work.
36 19
52.78 communicate orally with
colleagues, patients, and people around me.
36 16
44.44
communicate in written with colleagues, patients, and people
around me. 36
4 11.11
others. 36
In the table above, it shows that 69.44 of the whole respondents stated that their learning goal is to be able understand English words
terms related to pharmacy in their future work. The second highest percentage of learning goal is to be able to understand steps, procedures, or
instructions related to their work. The field of pharmacy requires the learners to read a lot of information which some are written in foreign
languages such as Latin, Chinese, and English. It explains why the highest percentages of the answer deal with how to understand something in the
learners’ field. It can be concluded from the two tables above that the Pharmacy
Study Programme learners’ goals of learning English are to to be able to communicate appropriately in both oral and written English and to be able
understand English words terms related to pharmacy in their future work.
According to this, the materials need to be developed to support the learners in communicating appropriately in both oral and written English
by giving sufficient amount of vocabulary related to pharmacy field. It will also help them to understand English words, terms, steps, procedures or
instructions related to their study to facilitate them in the academic activities or their future work.
b. Target Needs
Kategori