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Needs Analysis and Curriculum Development in ESP ( LYNNE FLOWERDEW) -…
Needs Analysis and Curriculum Development in ESP ( LYNNE FLOWERDEW)
Needs analysis - the first stage in ESP course development prior to curriculum design, materials selection, methodology, assessment and evaluation
Needs analysis means the methods for collecting and assessing data related to course design
The history of Needs analysis
1970s - target situation analysis
1997 - present situation analysis
learners' lacks and needs
personal information of learners
information about the language teaching environment
Before 1970, teacher's intuition
In the mid-1980s - needs analysis based on samples of texts (a focus on English for science and technology)
2006 - ethnographically oriented needs analysis
Sources and methods used to collect data in needs analysis for ESP
Sources for information
published and unpublished literature
learners
teachers
applied linguists
domain experts
triangulated sources
Methods
Inductive
expert intuitions, participant and non-participant observation, unstructured interviews
Deductive
surveys, questionnares, structured interviews, performance test
Other methods: group discussions, analysis of participants' diaries and journals
3 main ways for achieving validity and reliabilty in needs analysis procedures
Triangulation
Prolonged engagement
Participant verification
Needs analysis in EAP
A skill-based approach at the macro-level
Decreasing order -
reading, listening, writing, speaking
(among engineering students
Needs analysis for EOP
EOP fields
LAW, NURSING, BUSINESS, TOURISM