A survey was conducted of bacteriology students to understand their needs for improving English. Students preferred speaking with native speakers, talking with friends, and using English in specific places. They enjoyed group work and wanted more opportunities to practice at home. Popular resources were the internet and native speakers. Students preferred weekly evaluations and enjoyed speaking, writing, and receiving explanations in class. They wanted to work outside class but not do presentations themselves. The results provide important insights for course planning, showing student needs, preferences for how they learn, and desired materials. Considering student targets and needs is necessary for effective course design.

1. We polled some students from bacteriology program in order to analyze their needs.
What we could observe in the results was that at the moment to improve their English
level students prefer speak to native people, talk to friends and use the language in
specific places also students said that they like group works this could be because when
working in pairs or group works students complement each other but to do activities the
learners want to practice at home in order to they have enough time to do the exercises
this could be applied in grammar but for learning in the classroom the preferences are
interacting with classmates and to be corrected immediately. The selected resources
were internet and native people, the first one because is related with technology which
is something that really interests students and the second one is considered a very useful
tool to practice the language which helps them to familiarize more with the language
and to improve their listening. At the moment to be evaluated students prefer to have an
evaluation per week. Students really like to speak and write in class, when they do not
know the meaning of a word they really appreciate teacher explain it and they have a
preference to work outside the classroom but at making presentations instead the
teacher make them is not one of their preferences. We asked the students about what
happens in their English class and most of them answered that the objectives of the
lesson and the reason why they are learning the topics are explained but most of them
said that they are not given opportunities to participate choosing the content of the
lessons instead of this they can negotiate with the teacher about some aspects.
All these information results very important for a course planning because here we have
reflected all the needs of the students what they desire and how do they want classes be
carried out, as we can see the results show us a lot of needs and preferences of the
learners such as the way they want to be taught, the environment, the materials and so
on, considering that to design a course it is necessary to take into account the target and
the learning needs of the learners, with this questionnaire we can identify some of them
like what they want and need to know about the language? Why they are learning
English? Or how can the language help them in their career? In this way to design a
good course we have to consider all these information; otherwise it will not work and
students’ necessities will not be supply.

2. QUESTIONER REPORT
CRISTINA GERMAN PINTO
RICARDO MADERA DORIA
TEACHER:
LIC. SOL HERRERA
UNIVERSIDAD DE CORDOBA
MONTERIA
2011