Needs analysisNeeds analysis

Group members: 张 路 黄娟娟 李慕颖 黄芙蓉

Outline:

Subjects and background information

Motivational factors

Attitudinal factors

About the subjects and background:

• Subjects: 51 freshmen, Beijing City University, Finance.

• Instrument: questionnaire, AMTB, Gardner.

• Background: Intensive Reading class, 51 questionnaires in all, 49 valid questionnaires, 21 boys, 28 girls, Excel.

Motivational factors:

• Motivation types instrumental motivation integrative motivation• Motivation intensity

Motivation types:

Group Sex Number Mean

Instrumental

Male 21 17.95

Female 28 19.18

All 49 18.57

Integrative

Male 21 15.38

Female 28 14.71

All 49 15.05

Suggestions:

• The teacher can provide some help according to the student’s needs, for example,CET 4 or CET 6.

• The teacher can try to cultivate the student’s integrative motivation, especially for the female students.

Motivation intensity:

Sex Number Min Max Mean

Intensity Male 21 8 21 14.05

Female 28 6 18 13.18

All 49 6 21 13.67

Results:The male’s motivation intensity is higher than female’s.Generally speaking, the students’ motivation intensity is not so strong.

Suggestions:

The teacher can try to improve the students’ motivational intensity.

Arouse the students’ interests.

Learner autonomy.

Attitude (1):

11.52

2.53

3.54

4.55

Language Peopl e Languagel earni ng

Teacher Course

Atti tude

Results: The means of the students’ attitude to language and people are about the average. The means of the students’ attitude to the language learning, teacher and course are relatively high. In all, the students’ attitude is positive.

Suggestion: The teacher should try to integrate the

English culture into their teaching.

Conclusion:

The students’ English learning future is bright.

Attitude (2):

1

1. 5

2

2. 5

3

3. 5

4

4. 5

5

Mal e Femal e Al l Anxi ety

Conclusion:

The learners’ anxiety level is not so high, this means that the teacher has done a good job in controlling the classroom atmosphere.

Summary:• The dominate motivation type is the instru

mental motivation.• The subjects motivation intensity is not so s

trong.• The students’ attitudes to language and p

eople are not so positive, but their attidudes to language learning, teacher and course are releatively positive.

• The students’s anxiety level is not so high.

Reference:• Hutchinson, Tom & Waters, Alan (1987). English for S

pecific Purposes. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

• Gardner, R. C. 1985. Social psychology and second language learning: The role ofattitudes and motivation. London: Edward Arnold.

• Gardner, R.C. and Maclntyre, P.D. 1991. An instrumental motivation in language study. SSLA,13, 57-72.

• Richards, J. C. 2001. Curriculum Development in Language Teaching. Cambridge University Press.