The English language communicative needs of third year LMD students at biology department at the centre University of Naama

الملخص EN

The current research work attempts to have an overview of the linguistic needs and thereby propose useful suggestions for biology students consisting of 20 participants.

Further, the sample of the study consisted of 20 students, 7 are males and 13 are females who were enrolled in Naama Centre University in the department of biology during the second semester.

More specifically, the recommendations are proposed to meet the students' needs since several obstacles were found to be problematic for any ESP course.

For the sake of testing the hypothesis and achieving the aim of the study, mixed method research approach was used to collect data.

A questionnaire was developed and addressed to the students to collect the quantitative data in addition to a classroom observation and an interview with the teacher to obtain qualitative data.

The results of the current study confirmed the investigated hypothesis and disclosed that biology students need the four linguistic skills with a special emphasis on reading and writing skills in addition to the acquisition of terms related to their discipline.