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NEEDS ANALYSIS

PURPOSES

Find out what lg skills a learner needs in order to perform a particular role.

Determine if an existing course adequately addresses the needs of potential students.

Determine which students from a group are most in need of training in particular lg skills

Identify a change of direction that people consider important

Identify a gap between what students are able to do and what they need be able to do

Collect information about a particular problem learning are expecting

Described in terms of lg needs, are language skills needed to survive in an English-dominant society

Users of needs analysis

teachers, learners, writers, trainers, employers

Stakeholder: person or group of persons with a right to comment on and have input into, the curriculum process offered in schools.

Target population

People about whom information will be collected

Procedures for conducting needs analysis

Questionnaires

Self-rating

Meetings

interviews

Observation

Collecting learner lg samples

Task analysis

Case studies

Analysis of available information

Easy to prepare, use in a larger number of subject.

Information may be superficial.

Scales used to rate knowledge of students.

Instrument that provides only impressionistic information.

Depth information, longer to administrate and only to smaller groups.

Allows a large amount of information to be collected in a short time. Impressionistic information is obtained.

Be in a target situation. People do not perform well whey they being observed.

How well learners perform on different lg tasks (written, simulations, tests)

Analysis of the kinds of tasks the learners will have to carry in a future setting

Followed through a relevant work e in order to determine the characteristics of that situation

Is the first step in a needs analysis because there are few problems ini lg teaching that have not been written about somewhere.