Name : Luh Metri Sulistya Sudeni

NIM : 1812021103
Class : 3B.

Summaries of Needs Analysis and Situation Analysis

Needs Analysis
An analysis of learners’ need is a basic of education program which is the basic assumption of
the curriculum development. Need analysis is the procedure used to know the learners’ need.
From the 1960s, the demand for specialized language program s grew and applied linguistic
increasingly began to employee needs analysis procedure in language teaching.
Purposes of needs analysis:
 To find out the learners’ need in language skill to perform a particular role
 To help the student to determine what are their needs
 To determine the students that need more training in language skill
 To identify the important change of direction
Need is dependent on judgement and reflects the interest and values of those making such a
judgement.
The users of needs analysis
 Curriculum officers in the ministry of education
 Teachers
 Learners
 Writers
 Testing personnel
 Staff of tertiary institution
The target population, the people about whom information will be collected
 Policy makers  Academics
 Ministry of education officials  Employers
 Teachers  Vocational training specialist
 Students
Etc.
Administering the need analysis
 Made up of two academics and a research assistant
 Discussed the project and review the sample
 Piloted the questionnaire
 Academic staff who administered some of the quotes nair
 Prepare the question and tabulating
 Procedures for conducting needs analysis
Information could be obtained from following source:
 Sample of student writing
 Test data on student performance
 Reports by teachers on typical problems students face
 Opinion of experts
 Interview information
 Textbook analysis
 Related literature
 Example of writing
 Example of writing assignment given to first-year university student.
Procedures for collecting information during a needs analysis can be selected from among
the following :
 Questionnaires
 Self rating
 Interviews
 Meetings
 Observation
 Collecting learner language sample
 Task analysis
 Case studies
 Analysis of available information
Designing the need analysis is discuss about selecting those that are likely to give a
comprehensive view learners needs and that represent the interest of the different stakeholders
involved.
Making use of the information obtained:
Consist of information taken from several different source and summarized in the form of linked
lists of different kind.

Situation analysis
The goal of needs analysis is to collect information that can be used to develop a profile of the
language needs of a group of learners in order to be able to make decision about the goals and
content about the language course.
The goal of situation analysis is to identify key factors that might positively or negatively affect
the implementation of curriculum plan.
The examples that illustrate the kinds of factors that can have an impact on the success
curriculum :
 The education department in an EFL country decides to introduce English from the third
elementary school rather than in high school.
 A team of foreign experts under contract to an international funding body is given a
contract to write of textbooks.
There are two factors that can have an impact on the success curriculum:
 Social factors
 Project factors
 Institutional factors
 Teacher factors
 Learners factors
 Adoption factors