Needs analysis March 2014 | Page 4

needs. The societal needs refer to the need of the individuals and the community to acquire and use English language skills for world communication, in trading, technology, cultural purposes, entertainment, travelling etc. The educational need is the need of an individual to use English in the community regarding to the cultural, intellectual and affective development of each individual learner. Such development is what affects those learners’ attitude towards the educational needs involve the linguistic needs each learner has enhanced in order to “design the proper tools that would lead the learners to acquire the desirable language behavior in the EFL”(1988). The following mind map summarizes the previous information: