LÝ LUẬN 2

Other problems with Needs Analyses may arise when the learners have not themselves chosen to do the course (eg because the students have to attend secondary school or because a course has been chosen and paid for by an employee's company). Of course, in these circumstances, a Needs Analysis may serve a/an _______ purpose: encouraging the course participants to start taking ownership of their course, making choices about what they want or need (rather than assuming that everything has already been decided and is cut and dried). When people feel they have some power or _________ over what happens to them, it can really change their attitude to it.

• different - decision

• additional - consideration

• additional - responsibility

2 How can you learn more about students and what they might be thinking about you in the first meeting?

we can gain a number of more intangible, intuitive impressions based on our interpretation of _______________________.

• eye contact

• body posture

• comments overhead

Needs Analyses are not always as ______ as teachers hope they might be. This may be because learners (for some reason) have not taken their task _______ enough and have produced little information, or information they have not thought very carefully about, or even untrue information. This suggests that it is essential to carefully introduce a Needs Analysis task so that learners understand the importance and value of what they are doing and take an appropriate amount of ______ to complete it.

• true - hard - time

• useful - seriously -time

• helpful - seriously - effort

What is the name of intelligence if a person____?

can visualize the world/ things very well

• intrapersonal

• visual

• logical-mathematical

• interpersonal

What is the name of intelligence if a person____?

can coordinate his/her mind with his/her body very well

• bodily-kinesthetic / bodily feeling

• intrapersonal

• logical mathematical

• interpersonal

What is the name of intelligence if a person____?

can discern or recognize sounds, pitch, tone, rhythm, and timbre very well

• bodily-kinesthetic / bodily feeling

• visual

• musical

• linguistic

TRUE OR FALSE?

Traditional education systems may NOT have tended to focus on some intelligences over others, especially on language and logical intelligences.

• TRUE

• FALSE

What type of learners are they if students_______?

love to interact and prefer learning through communication and interaction. They enjoy heading up committees, participating in group learning projects, and communicating with other learners and adults.

• visual learners

• kinaesthetic learners

• interpersonal learners

• intrapersonal learners

1 What can you learn about a class at first glance?

• age of learners, number of students, gender (the male and female ratio)

• whether or not they have books, materials, pens, how they are seated

• whether they are silent or talking or actively doing something

• what they do in reaction to your presence

Imagine a situation where you're a class teacher and you've already devised (or been presented with) a course plan before the course starts. How could you let the data obtained from a Needs Analysis influence or change that plan?

• This largely depends on your own attitude as a teacher.

• how much do you want the course plan to be changed? Do you have the time or resources to take up all the ideas?

• There are a range of possibilities, from 'taking least account of the data' to 'taking most account'.