Journal Report (2) "Textbook Evaluation as a Means of Discovering Learners and Teachers Needs"

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Welcome back to my blog. So in this time I want to review the journal that I read. The journal I read was about education with title "Textbook Evaluation as a Means of Discovering Learners and Teachers Needs". 

So let's start !!!

There is no uniform view on what constitutes needs analysis. Needs analysis is viewed as both a process aimed at determining the needs for which a learner or groups of learners  requires a language and arranging the needs according to priorities and techniques for collecting and assessing information relevant to course design. 

There  are  multiple  ways  in  which  needs  analysis can  be  carried  out.  Long describes  the following methods nonexpert and expert intuitions, unstructured  and  structured  interviews,  surveys  and questionnaires, language audits, observations, diaries, analysis of corpora and discourse, etc.

Researchers claim that the outcomes of a needs analysis are more objective when the triangulation method is implemented, that is  information  from  various  sources  is  considered. Moreover,  "To  increase  reliability  and  validity,  data should ideally be collected from two or more sources using two or more methods". 

It is necessary to acknowledge that needs analysis cannot be the only source of information for course designers to base their decisions on; more factors have to be taken into account. For example, in the  case  of  the  "English  for  Academics" project,  the experience  of  which  is  going  to  be discussed  in  the article.

However, Hyland points out that needs analysis should be on going to dynamic. Normally, teachers are responsible for adjusting materials to the immediate of their learners. 

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