Abstract:
The research aimed to survey needs and problems in English communication of international volunteers at work camp oversea. This survey focused on thirty international volunteers who have used English communication to listen, read, speak, and write to communicate with people in their routine work. They came from different voluntary projects and countries. The research instrument employed in the study was a set of questionnaires which comprised of the needs and problems they faced about English communication. The collected data were analyzed by using frequency, percentage, mean, and standard deviation. The finding revealed that the international volunteers need to improve English language skills in order to communicate in their routine work at a high level which can be put in order from the most to the least as follows: listening, writing, speaking and reading, respectively. In addition, they faced the ploblems when communicate with people at a high level in which writing skill is the most problematic, followed by listening, speaking and reading, respectively.