OUR OWN
INSTRUMENTS
and the progress of the
(Castañeda & Espinosa, 2008)
students
1.Surveys
Considering the previous theoretical
background, the purpose of the needs
analysis and the target population we will
work with, the categories to take into
account at the moment of designing our own
instruments are:
1. Learning needs
2. Language needs
3. Social needs
This tool is of great mportance due to “
it lets the teacher know the students’
preferences, likes, dislikes and their opinion
of their learning process which they are
involved. (Castañeda & Espinosa , 2008). The
surveys are useful tools because it is easy
to quantify and measure the answers.
Learning needs
2. Observation and Field’s notes
This aspect is designed to ask our learners
about their learning styles, motivations to
learn, thinking styles, preferences and
types of intelligence they use when they are
learning.
Language needs
Observation is a mechanism that allows the
tutors “the extraction of
representative data about behaviors,
actions or aspects that are re