Need analysis

After reading this article, I looked back on my teaching experience at elementary school. Although I was aware of importance of need analysis, there was no necessity of conducting it. Ministry of Education organized curriculum in advance, so teachers had determined syllabus and made it rule to follow that syllabus. However, teaching field is so dynamic and leaners' development stages are variable that differntiated instruction and curriculum should be given according to learner's need. Otherwise, lesson will end with fail, although the curriculum is well organized and satisfies the objective of instruction. One of the journal I read explains the importance of need analysis very well. It deals with vocabulary teaching and the research was conducted to show the effectiveness of using monolingual dictionary. However, the results turned out the learners who used bilingual dictionary showed better achievement in the test. This result implies how important the learners' preference and need is in language acquisition. Therefore, I would like learn how to conduct need analysis with triangular approach such as questionnaire, interview, meeting, etc in detail so that I can be a considerate teacher who satisfies the learners' needs and wants.