This chapter has made me go "Ah, that's why!" I am so relating it to our current studies for our masters. What are the needs of our own students? They are our stakeholders. These studies could make a major impact on Second Language Acquisition! What we are really doing is analyzing what works and find out what else needs to be done to acquire second language or to keep the first language.
Some of our staff meetings have focused on students' test results. What we are doing is actually doing some sort of a needs analysis-what are the weak areas of our students? What can we do to help improve their scores? Wow.
My understanding of "needs analysis" has just taken 180 degree turn! I just had this general notion that it solely focused on basic needs like food, clothing, shelter... All the years of figuring out what we need to help our students... and the district's effort in training our new teachers must have evolved from such an analysis.
Needs analysis is like a seive-getting rid of what doesn't work and keeping what works to improve. Wow.
Anna
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