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MAKING BASIC DECISIONS ABOUT THE NEEDS ANALYSIS

WHO WILL BE INVOLVED IN THE NEEDS ANALYSIS?

The target group is made up of those people about whom information will ultimately be gathered.

The audience for a needs analysis should encompass all people who will eventually be required to act upon the analysis.

The needs analysis are those persons responsible for conducting the needs analysis.

The resource goup consists of any people who may serve as sources of information about the target group

WHAT RYPES OF INFORMATION SHOULD BE GATHERED?

The democratic philosophy is one in which a need is defied as any chage that is desired by a majority of the group involved.

In the analytic philosophy a need is whatever the students will naturally learn next based on what is know about them and the learning processes involved.

A diagnostic philosophy propose that a need is anything that would prove harmful if it was missing.

SITUATION NEEDS VERSUS LANGUAGE NEEDS

The second sort of information is about the target linguistic behaviors that the learners must ultimately acquire.

OBJECTIVE NEEDS VERSUS SUBJECTIVE NEEDS

Objective needs are those needs determined on the basis of clear-cut, observable data gathered about the situation, the learners, the language that students must eventually acquire.

Subjective needs are generally more difficult to detemine because they have to do with "wants", "desires" and "expectations".

LINGUISTIC CONTENT VERSUS LEARNING PROCESSES

The linguistic content position tends to favor needs analyzed objectively from a language needs perspective and spelled out in linguistic terms, whether they be phonemes, morpheme, grammatical structures, case rules, etc.

The learning process position leans toward needs specified from a situation needs perspective; these tend to be more subjectively analyzed needs in the affective domain, such as motivation and self-esteem.

HOW MIGHT PHILOSOPHY AND POINTS OF VIEW INTERACT?

GATHERING INFORMATION

1. The situations in which a language will be used

2. The objectives and purposes for which the language is needed

3. The type of communicatons that will be used

4. the level of proficiendy that will be required.