NEEDS ANALYSIS AS A BASIS FOR CALL MATERIALS DESIGN

Abstract At present CALL focuses almost exclusively on learners’ linguistic needs and is therefore not in harmony with current humanistic views of the learner as an individual with psychosocial needs. It is suggested that one way of remedying this situation is to use a ‘process‐oriented’ needs analysis for a particular group of learners as the basis for CALL materials design. The article provides an example of this procedure, working from needs analysis to development of aims, materials development, implementation and evaluation.