CONTEXT AND SITUATION ANALYSIS

CONTEXT AND SITUATION ANALYSIS

1. THE LANGUAGE SETTING

   • Planners need to keep in mind the totality of communication roles in any speech community, as well as the significance of the setting in terms of its effect of the learners and the learning process.

2. PATTERNS OF LANGUAGE USE IN SOCIETY

   • 1. Education: the role of English as a means for furthering one’s education, and the effectiveness of the existing curriculum and teaching materials.
   • 2. The labor market. It requires us to research the potential impact that learning the target language would have on an individual seeking better work opportunities.
     • We need to knwow which professions require knowledge of the LWC (language of wider communication) and to what extent: The need for speaking, writing, and for reading professional material.
   • 3. The process of modernization: All factors affecting the role of the target language in the process of modernization. To what extent is information of the target language accessible in the community? In what ways do people use or need the language?

3. GROUP AND INDIVIDUAL ATTITUDES TOWARDS THE LANGUAGE

   • 1. Attitudes towards the target language, the people who speak it and the culture which it represents.
   • 2. Attitudes towards the learning /acquisition process itself, its relevance to individually perceived needs, its efficacy as represented by the teachers, the materials and the school system as a whole.

4. POLITICAL AND NATIONAL CONTEXT

   • Viewed at the highest level, political considerations have to do with the particular regime or administration in power and how it views the question of language in general. It all depends on the priorities set up by the administration in power at a particular point in history.

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