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STUDENT TASK
Student’s name
Julia Rufino Ramirez
GENERAL INFORMATION
This document includes the task you are required to do for unit 4.
Read the instructions for the task carefully before you do it.
When you have finished it, save the task-document in the portfolio. Then, submit it by
the due date following the instructions given in the Academic Guide.
And:
- analyzing the needs assessment samples, please fill in the chart with the
relevant information:
Type of needs For example: Pre-course Assessment (or Target Situation Needs Analysis);
assessment: Ongoing Needs Analysis; or Initial Needs Analysis
I’d like to do Initial Needs Analysis: I work for a private English club where
students are required to do a diagnostic assessment so, all of them surly
will have the same level but, what I really want to know is my students
previous learning language experience and their expectations of this
course.
Objective needs: learners’ background information: age, nationality, mother tongue,
language abilities
most students share the same age, mother tongue, nationality although
they never share the same language abilities and experiences, so finding
out this information really helps myself as a teacher to have a clear
language skill to be addressed and what learners need to do in English in
order to success.
Target needs: (keep in mind the purpose of the course; level and age of students)
Situation (context): This needs assessment will be done for a private English
club, most of the students takes extra classes here after
school or Saturday classes, there are 12 or less students in
each group, most of them answer a diagnostic assessment
before joining us, students also answer a needs assessment to
find out student’s purpose for join an English club, this means
why Do students want to Learn English ? the most popular
answers are, to get the a FOELF / Cambridge certification, to
pass the final exams and get a degree, to find a well pay job, to
study / live abroad are the most popular answers.
Type of course: Semi-intensive English course
Learners (age/level): Lower-intermediate
Reasons for carrying out this This questionnaire will give me a chance to find out about
needs’ assessment: students' previous language learning experience, and the
expectations they have of the course, It will also give me a
chance to explain to them something about the kinds of
things I as a teacher hope them to do on the course and to
give them some kind of rationale for activities that they
find unfamiliar or strange.
Think about your previous experience of learning a language. Tick ( ) the sentences that
are true for you:
1 Learning a language
Now go back to the beginning of the questionnaire. Mark with a cross (x) the sentences that
you expect will be true of the language course you are about to follow.
4 Aspects of language
What aspects of language do you feel you need most help or practicing with? Number them
in order: 1= need to practice most – 7 = need to practice less.
Pronunciation
Assessment of the activity: this part will be done once you have carried out the needs
assessment.
I have analyzed the students answers from the questionnaire and I got all the information I
had planned although, now I would like to interview students to find out a little bit more
about the aspects of language they feel they need most help or practicing with. This will really
help me to plan my lessons and help my students to reach their personal goal. some skills are
easier but others are a great challenge for them, for example I can see from their answers
that listening and speaking are the most popular among the skills that are more complicated
for them, and reading is one of the easiest as they can go over the message as many time as
they want or they can use their dictionaries.
All my students take English classes at their College or high school, so they already have some
experience with the language, I want to be able to improve their experience and make them
fall in love with the language so that I can keep them motivated and make them become self-
learners which is one of my personal goals.
- You need to consider and plan the administration of this activity as you
will be asked to submit results (and evidence) by unit 8.
- You have two weeks for submitting this task.
N. B. Keep in mind that if you use any other source (electronic or any other type)
for doing your tasks you must cite it properly. Remember that not acknowledging
the source of the information you use (if any) is considered plagiarism. For more
information on citation http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/2/