NEED ANALYSIS

NEED ANALYSIS

1. WHO WILL BE INVOLVED?

   • Four categories of people may become envolved in te needs analysis
     • The target group
       • Is made up for those people about whom information will ultimately be ghatered.
     • The audience
       • Is all people who will eventually be required to act upon the analysis.
     • the needs analysts themselves
       • Are those persons responsible for conducting the needs analysis.
     • the resource group
       • Any people who may serve as source of information about the target group.

2. FOUR PHILOSOPHIES

   • The discrepancy
     • the discrepancy between as desired performance from students and what they are actually doing.
   • The democratic
     • need is defined as any change that is desired by a majority of the group involved.
   • The analytic
     • the students will naturally learn next base on what is known about them and the learning process inlvolved.
   • The diagnostic
     • need is anything that would prove harmful if it was missing.
   • RELATION WITH POINTS OF VIEW
     • The philosophies and dicotomies are presented in such way that none is advocated over the others because the decisions about which roads to follor in a particular language program depend on the personalities and institutions affecting that program.

3. POINTS OF VIEW

   • Situation Needs vs Language Needs
     • The first needs are related to the information in an especific situation and the second are related to the target language.
   • Objective Needs vs Subjective Needs
     • The first are the needs determined on the baiss of clar-cut and the second needs are what we "want", and "desire".
   • Linguistics Content vs Learning Process
     • The first is the position that analyzed from a language needs in linguistic terms, and the second is a position that needs specified from a situatio needs perspective.