Proposing a Procedure for English Learners' Needs Analysis: Iraqi Vocational Schools as a Sample

Abstract

This research proposes a learners' needs analysis procedure that can be adopted before editing English textbooks, specifically for Iraqi vocational schools. The researcher explains the importance, the approaches and the procedures of learners' needs analysis, introduces a procedure that is thought to be practical and explains how it may be designed and/or developed.  The main terms and concepts of learners’ needs analysis and those related to specific purposes have been defined. A questionnaire has been prepared by the researcher and then approved by experts as a research tool in its English and Arabic versions. Fifty vocational school teachers, supervisors and experts in education and curriculum design have been requested to fill up the questionnaire. The researcher accordingly identifies the results that, he thinks, can be of significant value for both textbooks designers and teachers.