Ann Johns states that while teaching English for Specific Purposes “all language teaching must be
designed for the specific learning and language use purposes of identified groups of students” (Johns 1991: 67).
The specific needs of the subject content may not require grammar or phonetics but the latters are
always integrated into the process of teaching as they make an important part of the conveyance of the
meaning both of the entire utterance and of its separate parts.
What concerns discussions on the analyses of student needs, particularly related to learning interests,
one must agree that “curricula should be based upon the most systematic accurate and empirical measures of
students’ needs and of the language required by the tasks they must perform outside of the classroom”