English Syllabus for Nursing Students in Indonesia

This paper aims to figure out the learners learning needs, the learners language needs and to design a suitable syllabus of English based on the learner¿s need. This research applied descriptive quantitative method. There were some techniques used for taking the sample. They are convenience sampling and purposive sampling. There were two groups of the subjects in this research. They were the nursing students of Stikes Mega Buana Palopo and graduate students who work in Hospital Sawerigading Palopo. This result of this research showed that learning needs where consist of the skills of language and preferences of learning. In term of skills of language, the skills of language are used at the often category for students in the classroom. In learning English with other learners, pairs study is preferred than study alone, and study in small group is more preferred than study in big group meanwhile preferences of learning in terms of using teaching techniuqe, learn by pronouncing and listening, and use fun activity, role play are preferred by the learners.