Needs Assessment

NEEDS ASSESSMENT

1.     What is your highest level of education? 

Bachelor's degree from university

2.     Did you study English before you came to Canada? How long?

     Yes. More than nine years.

3.     How you’d like to work on your 4 skills (LSRW)--what tasks you’d like to be able to do in the next 6 months.

    Great,  I'am happy to learn the 4 skills of English and to get the cool feeling of using it accumulative. Keep going and do more practice.

4.     What language skill is the easiest for you? Please order from 1 (easy) to 4 (difficult).

a.     reading   b. writing    c. listening               d. speaking

a,b,c,d

5.     List three goals or/and reasons for you taking this program.

     1) Understanding what do the TV and the radio present and catching the more detail of them.

     2) Communicating more frequently with common people.

     3) Getting more information and experience about local surroundings including working and living in order to the better settlement of my future.

6.     Underline the skill(s) you want to work on in this class:

Speaking - listening - reading - writing

7.     Choose the most important skill/topic from the list below, and put them in order according to their importance.

Skills/Topics
1)    Assessing your long and short term goals 2)    Assessing your skills 3)    Understanding the workplace culture 4)    Resume and cover letter writing 5)    Obtain a LinkedIn account 6)    Pronouncing English clearly
7)    How Canadian society works
8)    How to understand speakers
9)    Starting small talks in English
10)           Improve writing skills
11)           Talking on the telephone
12)           Improve listening skills
13)           Practise job interviews
14)           Practise presentations
15)           Learn how to speak at work
16)           Learn idioms
17)           Learn grammar
18)           Canadian culture
19)           other (specify)

8, 6, 9, 11, 12, 15, 10, 18, 3, 7, 16, 17, 14, 13

8.     What do you think can make our learning environment more effective and easier, for example, being on time in class, or doing your homework on time etc. Write down two to three ideas to improve our learning environment:

11)     long time field trip and get more time to stay with our teacher or other local people for real living.

22)  invite different local people to communicate with us 

     

33)   take part in real workplaces like bank, shop and business company to do anything we can improving our communication skills.

9.     Write a short paragraph to describe yourself and your goals in Canada.

Firstly, I hope I can totally catch the meaning of any other people's present. Secondly, my goal is I can speak English frequently without any hesitation. Finally, I wish I can make a few friends living in Canada and find a proper job like any common people.