Learner Needs Unit 14

The learners needs, is very different when we talk about teaching other language because they have different motivation be in the classroom, many of them need praise to feel confident with themselves, so recognize and take part on the students’ needs is really significant to become into a good teacher.

In this unit we have two categories that are: kind of needs and reason for needs. In the topic called kind of needs we have the personal needs like goals, expectations or physical needs, too. Other is the learning needs that have to be with the specific way how students learn the subskills or the autonomy that they have during the learning process and finally we have the professional needs like: specific grammar, functions or text types. While in the reason we have aspects like age, gender, motivation, learning experience and professional requirements. For that reason many schools or high schools in our country use the CLIL, which a program where the subject that are taught in the mother tongue are switched into the target language to make the course more relevant.

Teacher should make students work in their skills, and apply all the knowledge about learning strategies in order to keep the pace of a lesson and the interaction pattern in a class.

Here more information:

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMDI9lO12_4

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMLAgXDdL0Q

• www.ph-ludwigsburg.de/html/9e...s.../Milstein.pp

• http://www.educationscotland.gov.uk/resources/p/professionaldevelopmentpacks/genericresource_tcm4645026.asp