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The main aim of this research was to find out the language needs of Electric-Electronics Engineering students who are studying English at a state university in Turkey. To identify Engineering students’ language needs objectively, the following groups of participants were used as informants: Students of Electric-Electronics Engineering, engineers who graduated from the same institution in the last 5 years, and instructors of Electric-Electronics department. One of the most suitable instruments to assess the linguistic needs of these students was a questionnaire. To obtain the validity and reliability of the questionnaire, a pilot version was constructed and carried out with the fourth year secondary program students. All in all, the analysis of Electric-Electronics engineering students’ needs described in this study has revealed that there are similarities and differences regarding the opinions among participants. The most important similarity or difference lies under participants’ current linguistic wants, lack of language skills and future linguistic needs. It is believed that the findings of this study will provide useful data for language teachers and course designers to train more successful language learners. Consequently, this study might be used for further studies where similar circumstances occur which require a needs assessment.

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