Revue Des lettres et des Sciences Humaines et sociales
Abstract
The globalisation process has made it necessary to help students getting adapted to today’s competitive society, meaning that needs analysis should be directed so as to help learners for future professional communication and be active participants in their world. In sum, analysing the specific needs of a group of learners serves as the prelude a language� course design, because it determines the ‘what’ and the ‘how’ of the course. Materials designers should explore the learners’ potential needs and hence decide about the process of learning and learning skills needed to be taken into account. Needs analysis provides information about the type of language required during the teaching situation, either in terms of target needs or learning needs. This data will determine� � the content of the teaching materials. The collected data determine the content of a language programme that will meet these needs. It provides information about the environment of the learning situation It allow the course designer to determine the process of the organisation of the course or materiel, i.e. pedagogic approach
