Especificidades do uso do inglês (LE) na área técnica empresarial : a relação entre necessidades, planejamento de curso e material didático
Resumo
This study presents a comparison of the English as a Foreign Language courses
offered at two companies. Our purpose is to evaluate what is the treatment of the language use
specificities in these companies employees peformance of their functions in their daily work
routine. We discuss the key role of needs analysis in the design of effective LSP courses, as
stated by Hutchinson and Waters (1984, 1987) and Dudley-Evans and St John (1998), among
other reserchers in the field. Our data analysis shows how important it is that professionals who
decide to work in this area search for solid theoretical information on this fruitful and progressive
branch of EFL/ESL, more specifically. Our study can provide initial theoretical basis for those
language teachers, especially the ones working with EFL,who wish to be introduced or to obtain