Need analysis: A case study for listening skill at tenth-grade students on English learning

Abstract

Although listening is known as the primarily skills of others in language acquisition, finding a set of specific listening materials that can improve student’s skill based on students’ need in their department is very hard. Considering this condition, the writer decided to analyze students’ need for learning listening at tenth-grade in Computer and Engineering Networking Department. Hutchinson and Waters (1987) theory used to analyze the Need Analysis in this study. Based on the result, it found that students’ goal is to support they carrier in computer field because listening is play important role in communicating with other. Moreover, desired inputs are authentic materials that can decided by the participants and can be learnt outside the classroom but they only understand about 100-150 words. In addition, they want interest material which can do in pairs and in a small group