Abstract
This paper examines the English needs of both computer practitioners and college students who are majoring in computers. Based on the results from 86 engineers and 346 college students as well as 14 university faculties, we discover that the following events are regarded as the most important ones by all groups of respondents including, familiarity of vocabulary for software programming and hardware, reading major-related articles and the ability to further learn major-related knowledge. The other communicative skills such as building good relationships with customers in English, reading and working with letters and meeting memos in English and making telephone calls in English are also deemed by the participants to be necessary and relatively important. Other communicative events which have been discussed in other related literatures are also studied and then instructional suggestions are given according to the investigation results.
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