Journal of English Language and Education
Vol 10, No 6 (2025)

Hoteliers’ Needs Analysis in a Five-Star Hotel: ESP Course Design Considerations

Xenia, Tia (Unknown)
Indriyani, Christina Eli (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
10 Nov 2025

Abstract

With the increasing demand for English proficiency in hospitality, ESP training becomes important to bridge the gap between communicative needs and current employee performance. Then, needs analysis serves as a foundation of ESP course design as the first phase to conduct a thorough identification of the learners’ needs to use the target language. This study investigated the English language needs in a five-star hotel in Jakarta involving 53 hoteliers from housekeeping, concierge, security, food and beverage, and engineering departments. The data were collected through questionnaires consisting of personal information, necessities, wants, lacks, and learning needs. The findings revealed that speaking and listening skills were the utmost used English skills in a five-star hotel in Jakarta. Consequently, the ESP course content should reflect the real workplace conditions. The hoteliers preferred interactive and communicative learning activities such as group discussion, watching videos, and games which foster experience sharing and problem-solving.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

jele

Publisher

Subject

Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media Other

Description

Journal of English Language and Education (pISSN: 2597-6850 and eISSN: 2502-4132) is a journal that focuses on researching or documenting issues in education, language education, applied linguistics, English education, English language teaching, English Literature, language assessment and ...