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NEEDS

ANALYSIS
Needs Analysis
“Need analysis is directed mainly at the
goals and content of a course. It
examines what the learners know
already and what they need to know.”
(Nation & Macalister, 2009, p. 24)
Brown defined needs analysis as:

“a systematic collection and analysis


of relevant information necessary to
satisfy the language learning
requirements of the students within
the context of a particular institutions
involved in the learning situation”
Division of Needs

Target Learning
Needs – Needs –
what the what the
learners learners
need to do need to do
in a target in order to
situation learn
Target Needs

Lacks
Wants

Types of Needs

Necessities
NEEDS

NECESSITI
LACKS WANTS
ES

Present Required Objective Subjectiv


Knowledge Knowledge Needs e Needs

Questionnaires,
personal
interviews, data
collection, Learner self-
observation, assessment
informal using list and
consultation w/ scales
teachers,
learners and
test
DO THIS!
GOALS QUESTIONS TYPES OF
INFORMATIO
N IN THE
ANSWERS
LANGUAGE

IDEAS

SKILLS

TEXT
Negotiated
Ongoing Needs Analysis Syllabus

■ Learners are given a series of items that may describe their


wants.
– Rank individually and then in pairs or fours, and finally as
a group
– Note the points that they individually ranked highly but
could not gain group support for

Items to rank can take this form:

I would like more group work activities.


I would like more written feedback on assignments.

■Suggests a range
of methods
DISCOVERING
NEEDS ■Organized around
NECESSITIES,
LACKS, WANTS
RELIABLE VALID
EVALUATIN NEEDS NEEDS
G NEEDS
ANALYSIS

PRACTICAL
NEEDS
EVALUATING NEEDS ANALYSIS
■Reliable Needs
– Involves well thought out standardized
tools that are applied systematically
■Valid Needs
– Involves looking at what is relevant and
important
■Practical Needs
– Involves time, environment, explicit results
ISSUES IN NEEDS
ANALYSIS
 Common core and
specialized language
 Narrow focus – wide focus
 Critical Needs Analysis
Common core and specialized language

Learners should first There is a similar progression for


focus on a common grammatical items, perhaps of two
core of 2,000 words, stages with stage (1) consisting of
then focus on general high-frequency widely used
academic vocabulary grammatical items,
common to a wide and stage (2) focusing on those
range of disciplines. particular to the text types of the
discipline.

Sutarsyah
Nation

Kennedy

Biber
Narrow focus – wide focus
In social constructionist
theory, arguing for the Such a focus, however,
importance of successful runs the risk of
communication within a teaching “parole” and
specific discourse not “langue”
community.

De Saussure
Ken Hyland
Critical Needs Analysis
■Needs analysis is affected by the
ideology of those in control of the
analysis.
■That is, the questions they ask, the areas
they investigate, and the conclusions
they draw are inevitably influenced by their
attitudes to change and the status quo
SUMMARY OF THE STEPS

1. Discover learners’ needs


2. Decide what course content
and presentation features
will meet these needs

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