This document discusses the stages of conducting an English for Specific Purposes (ESP) course needs assessment. It outlines the basic steps, which include: 1) making initial decisions about who will be involved, what information to gather, and which viewpoints to consider; 2) gathering information through questions, existing data, tests, interviews and more; and 3) analyzing the information collected. The goal of a needs assessment is to systematically define curriculum objectives that satisfy students' language learning needs within their particular institutional context.

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Annida Ul Hasanah
Dewi Yani
Dian Oktaviani
Eka Nurul Fauziah
Evi Yulianti
Rusniawati
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2. Stages of ESP Course Design:
Identifying and Conducting Steps of
Need Assessment

3. What is a Needs
Assessment?
. . . The systematic collection
and analysis of all subjective and
objective information necessary to
define
and
validate
defensible
curriculum purposes that satisfy the
language learning requirements of
students within the context of
particular institutions that influence
the learning and teaching situation.
(Brown 1995)

4. Basic Steps of
Need Assessment
Step 1: Making basic decision about
the needs assessment
•Who will be involved in the need
assessment?
Audience
Target Group
Resource Group
Needs Analysts

5. • What types of information should be
gathered?
According
to
Stufflebeam,
four
divergent philosophies can arise a needs
assessment:
1.The discrepancy
2.The democratic
3.The analytic
4.The diagnostic

6. • Which points of view should be taken?
– Situation Needs Vs. Language Needs
– Objective Needs Vs. Subjective Needs
– Linguistic Content Vs. Learning
Processes

7. • How might philosophy and points of view
interact?
3 dimensions that shape points of view on
needs assessment
Objective
learning
Linguistic processes language
Content
Subjective
Situation

8. Step 2: Gathering Information
• Types of questions
Rossett (1982) identified five categories of
questions designed to identify the following:
1. Problems
2. Priorities
3. Abilities
4. Attitudes
5. Solutions

9. •
Types of Instruments
– Existing information
– Tests
– Observations
– Interviews
– Meetings
– Questionnaires

10. •
Selecting and creating procedures
– Characteristics of procedures
– Advantages and disadvantages of
different procedures

11. •
Considerations specific to language need
assessment
– Discourse analysis
9 parameters as the framework for a
need assessment:
1. Participant
2.Purposive domain
3.Setting
4.Interaction

12. 5.Instrumentality
6.Dialect
7.Target level
8.Communicative event
9.Communicative key
–Text analysis