UNIT 14 LEARNER NEEDS

UNIT 14 LEARNER NEEDS

 

In this unit I analyzed the learner needs   and I realized that learners always have different needs which we as teachers must know and be aware of them. They could have personal needs such as age, gender, cultural background, interests, educational background motivation and personality, and that we as teachers have to help them for example choosing suitable topics and approaches, also the pace of the lessons and that the treatment should be different for individual learners.

Also, they could have learning needs such as their learning styles and past language learning experiences, learning gap,  different learners goals and expectations, this fits most to adult learners because teenagers and children may not have them yet. For this reason to fit learning needs the teacher must choose different topics and different assessment activities and also make them use different learning styles.

For a teacher it is also relevant to know the professional needs of older learners because they may be studying at English-medium universities, start a new job or start new job duties.

http://www.languageswithoutlimits.co.uk/sharedneeds.html (Simpson and Ure, 1994.)

http://www.assetproject.info/learner_methodologies/before/learning_analysis.htm  (Rhonda Wynne, 2014)

http://www.cal.org/caela/tools/program_development/elltoolkit/Part2-5NeedsAssessment&LearnerSelf-Evaluation.pdf