Second Language Needs Analysis

by Edited by Michael H. Long

• ISBN13: 9780521618212
• ISBN10: 0521618215
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-12-05
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

No language teaching program should be designed without a thorough analysis of the students' needs. The studies in this volume explore Needs Analysis in the public, vocational and academic sectors, in contexts ranging from service encounters in coffee shops to foreign language needs assessment in the U.S. military. In each chapter, the authors explicitly discuss the methodology they employed, and in some cases also offer research findings on that methodology. Several studies are task-based, making the collection of special interest to those involved in task-based language teaching. Contributions include work on English and other languages in both second and foreign language settings, as well as a comprehensive overview of methodological issues in Needs Analysis by the editor.

Table of Contents

List of contributors	vii
Acknowledgments	viii
Overview: A rationale for needs analysis and needs analysis research	1	(18)
Michael H. Long
I. Methodological issues
Methodological issues in learner needs analysis	19	(60)
Michael H. Long
II. The public sector
Language needs analysis at the societal level	79	(26)
Richard D. Brecht
William. P. Rivers
Foreign language needs assessment in the US military	105	(22)
John A. Lett
III. The occupational sector
Sources, methods and triangulation in needs analysis: A critical perspective in a case study of Waikiki hotel maids	127	(42)
Rebeca Jasso-Aguilar
Foreign language need of business firms	169	(13)
Sonja Vandermeeren
Evaluating the use of multiple sources and methods in needs analysis: A case study of journalists in the Autonomous Community of Catalonia (Spain)	182	(18)
Roger Gilabert
``Feet speak louder than the tongue'': A preliminary analysis of language provisions for foreign professional footballers in the Netherlands	200	(25)
Eric Kellerman
Hella Koonen
Monique van der Haagen
IV. The academic sector
A task-based needs analysis of a tertiary Korean as a foreign language program	225	(40)
Craig Chaudron
Catherine J. Doughty
Youngkyu Kim
Dong-kwan Kong
Jinhwa Lee
Young-geun Lee
Michael H. Long
Rachel Rivers
Ken Urano
V. Analyzing target discourse
Collecting target discourse: The case of the US naturalization interview	265	(40)
Michelle Winn
A double shot 2% mocha latte, please, with whip: Service encounters in two coffee shops and at a coffee cart	305	(39)
Nicola J. Downey Bartlett
When small talk is a big deal: Sociolinguistic challenges in the workplace	344	(29)
Janet Holmes
Index	373