UNIT 14 LEARNER NEEDS

        Inevitably, all the people have many needs in the life, and mostly this is the case of students who are expecting to get the best aspects from their Language Learning process. If we talk about Needs, we need to exemplify the kinds of it and its reasons to happen. In we can identify three kinds of need, Personal needs, Learning needs, and (Future) professional needs.

         As the first matter personal needs have to do with praise, goals, support, and expectations of the students toward learning a second language; moreover, psychological and physical needs which will ensure students´ success, because they also affect the way in which a student would be able to study. Indeed, the reasons for personal needs are related to the age of the learners, their gender, cultural background, interests, educational background, motivation and personality. Those aspects are relevant every moment of the students´ life. When teachers look for more information about learners, they would find out that to make possible a positive achievement of the students´ goals and to amuse their needs, they are going to get a favorable experience through the target language learning.

        As a second matter learning needs, the teachers can provide certain kinds of strategies to accomplish students´ needs in this aspect. For example their specific ways of learning that encourage them to keep on getting the language, to learn language subskills or strategies to success an exam. Their autonomy and the feeling of being working at a suitable level will inspire them to persevere to achieve their goals. Moreover, the reasons for these needs are connected with their past language experience, learning goals and expectations of the course, level of skill and knowledge, availability of time and exam. When students demonstrate why they are capable to get another code, they are exhibiting the reasons to get and use it for their own sense.

        Finally, professional needs like specific subskills, vocabulary, grammar, functions and text types, secure stablish the connection with the reasons as professional language requirements for employment, training or education