چكيده
The purpose of this study was to examine the English language needs of Medical students at Tehran University of Medical sciences . Analysis of the needs took place for three groups: 320 undergraduate students, 30 postgraduate students and 20 university instructors. A triangulation approach to collect data was used in which a combination of the quantitative (using the questionnaires) and qualitative (interviews) methods was employed. The questionnaire was slightly modified version of the one used by Farhady (2007).Interviews were held with randomly selected 10 undergraduate students ,10 postgraduate students and 10 Instructors at Tehran University of Medical Sciences. The data obtained through the data collection phase were of two distinctly different types; one was the numerical data gathered via the questionnaire and the other one was the qualitative data gathered during the interviews. The obtained data from the questionnaires were analyzed through a variety of descriptive statistics such as frequencies, percentages, means, and standard deviations. Comparisons across the groups were then made through inferential statistics such as ANOVA. Instructors gave highest importance to all four categories: current language skills, current academic skills, future academic skills, and future career skills. While, Improving Language skills rated 31.56 by undergraduate students, and 4.59 by Postgraduate Students and 45.63 by Instructors. Improving Academic Needs rated 26.27 by undergraduate students,and 2.91 by Postgraduate Students and 35.97 by Instructors. Improving Language skills(career future)rated 32.19 by undergraduate students and 26.76 by Postgraduate Students and 44.93 by Instructors.while, undergraduate students basically rated all four kinds of skills as moderately important, just like the Instructor group, albeit, as just stated, to a lesser degree.
