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| Article Name : | | | Needs Analysis And Its Models | | Author Name : | | | T. Pushpanathan | | Publisher : | | | Ashok Yakkaldevi | | Article Series No. : | | | GRT-2930 | | Article URL : | |  | Author Profile View PDF In browser | | Abstract : | | | Needs analysis procedure in the field of language teaching was first used by Michael West in a survey report published in 1926 (White, 1988). In the following decades, however, little if any attention was given to needs analysis. This can be explained largely by the influence that the traditional structural view of the language continued to exert on the field of English language teaching (ELT), which resulted in the belief that the goal of second and foreign language learning was the mastery of these structurally related elements of language, i.e. phonological units, grammatical units, grammatical operations and lexical items (Richards and Rodgers, 1986: 17). What language learners needed to acquire these structural elements, it was widely believed, was adequate knowledge of the language. The belief that all learners more or less acquired this knowledge in the same way argued against the concept of individual learner needs. | | Keywords : | | |
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