THE NEEDS ANALYSIS OF NON EDUCATIVE STAFF OF SOEGIJAPRANATA CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY SEMARANG IN LEARNING ENGLISH
Daftar Isi:
- University is an important place to enable people to comply with the high standard of requirements from companies. It is why everybody tries to find out a good university to support his or her future career. For that reason, every university fights to be a good World Class University. One important element to support a university to be a world class university is excellent service from the whole staff of the university. A university has two kinds of staff. They are Educative and Non-Educative staff. Another important element is language. In this case, English is also an international language. It causes the emergence of the needs of English in many aspects of life and careers. This research was conducted with one hundred and sixteen Non-Educative staff of Soegijapranata Catholic University Semarang as the sample. The purposes of this study are to find out the kind of English and to identify the language skills needed by the Non-Educative staff at Soegijapranata Catholic University Semarang. This research is conducted by distributing questionnaires. The analysis was done based on the quantitative research using SPSS program. The results of the research show that almost all of the Non-Educative staff at Soegijapranata Catholic University Semarang need English to support their jobs. Almost all of the Non-Educative staff at Soegijapranata Catholic University Semarang agree with all of the activities which are suggested by the writer, or even strongly agree to improve the English language skills, especially Reading skill. There are only some respondents who disagree which mean that basically, the Non-Educative staff at Soegijapranata Catholic University Semarang need to improve the four English language skills. Yet, the degree of importance of one skill from the other is different.