Need analysis

irhash akbar ahmadi

muhammad haikal pasha
 The purpose in conducting Need
Analysis is to discover what needs to
be learned and what the learner’s
want to learn

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 THE Various Focuses of
needs analysis

NECESSITIES LACK WANTS

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The first thing What do the Learners have
to look at in learners lack? their own views
necessities is about what
the demands they think is
of the target useful for them
tasks

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NEEDS
DISCOVERIE
S
METHODS
NEED
✗ Self-Report
ANALYSIS
Interview
✗ Observation TOOLS
Questionnares
✗ Analysis

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Evaluating Needs Analysis consider ….
1. The range of type of information gathered in the
needs analysis.
2. Considering its reliability, validity and practicality
of the needs analysis procedures
3. The quality of the application of the need analysis
findings to the other parts of the curriculum design
process.
RELIABILITY, VALIDITY AND
PRACTICALITY
✗ Reliability consider about well-thought-out;
standardized tools. By recording, checklist, or
observation.
✗ Validity consider about what is relevant and
important. By using LIST or scale.
✗ Practicality consider about learner/teacher time
efficiency, clear/easy to understand result, easily
incorporated to the curriculum design process.
 Issues in need analysis
Common core and specialised language

 Narrow focus- wide focus

Critical need analysis

 1. Common core and specialised language

learners should first focus on a

common core of 2000 words.
 Focus on general academic
vocabulary to wide range
of disciplines
 Cont...

✗ The study of vocabulary shows that:

A. The goals are very focused (1,600 common core & 650
general academic words)
B. Grammatical items;
 Stage 1 consisting of high-frequency
 Stage 2 text types of the discipline
2. Narrow facus – wide focus

• Detailed systems of needs analysis determine

by what language a particular language.
• the importance of successful communication
within a specific discourse community.
  Affected by the ideology of
those in control of the analysis
 the questions they ask
3  the areas they investigate
Critical needs
analysis  the conclusions they draw
Case studies
(1) The range of types of information
gathered in the needs.
(2) the reliability, validity and practicality of
the needs analysis procedures.
(3) the quality of the application of the
findings of the needs analysis to the other
parts of the curriculum design process.
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