English for Interior Design: Investigating the Students, Teaching - non Teaching staff and Practitioners' Language Needs

Increasing demand of proficiency in English in every domain of knowledge and profession has become inevitable to be a successful professional or a practitioner in the contemporary times. Considering the new developments in the field of education and arrival of new courses with different specializations in Bachelor of Design (BD) this study aimed to analyze the specific needs of English Communication Skills for the students of Bachelor of Interior Design. This helps to understand and identify specific needs of English Learning with reference to designing English for Specific Purposes (ESP) course for the students of Interior Design (ID). For holistic needs analysis different stakeholders like students, teaching and non teaching staff and practitioners in the field of ID were taken into consideration. The study applied a subjective research based on questionnaires based data collection from 85 students and 41 university staff along with semi structured interviews of 28 different practitioners in the field of ID in context of Gujarat. Thus, data of 154 individuals was collected as a part of this study. It would be useful for researchers to do ESP needs analysis for different specializations of BD in and outside Gujarat.