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CHAPTER THREE: PROPOSED PLAN AND DELIVERABLES
3.1 Needs and Situation Analysis
The needs analysis of this project was conducted amongst 30 teachers that
work for the same online school based in China as well as the head of the department.
A survey was distributed to 13 teachers (See appendix one) and 17 other teachers
were observed during their online classes to examine how the targeted learners
respond to the teacher’s instructions using the same teaching style and techniques
that they often use with other students. The observations were done to emphasize;
TPR, student engagement, teacher and student interaction, time management,
classroom management, building rapport, and the way the teacher elicits the language
from the students and have them produce it, correction techniques and student
focused learning. Moreover, six Chinese young learners of English were individually
interviewed aged 9-11 years old with an elementary knowledge of English as a
foreign language. The core purpose of this interview was to learn more about the
topics these learners are passionate about, therefore, help them learn and practice
English through different activities that revolve around the topics they chose.
Based on the analysis and understanding of the teachers’ different opinions on
these learners’ abilities to acquire and learn English as a foreign language, it has been
concluded that these learners must be approached differently using different methods
and styles of teaching in addition to exercises and activities that do not require much
mental effort to have them easily produce the language. Therefore, a scope of topics
was designed and implemented with the same students for the purpose of making the
learning process entertaining enough so that effective learning can productively take
place and therefore monitored and assessed through filling out a weekly feedback