NEEDS ASSESSMENT

1.     What is your highest level of education?  

  Master degree of business administration.

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

     Yes, nearly 30 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.

    Speaking and Listening Skill. 

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

 reading, writing, listening, speaking

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

     Improve my listening and speaking skills in English

     

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	3
7)    How Canadian society works	2
8)    How to understand speakers
9)    Starting small talks in English	1
10)           Improve writing skills
11)           Talking on the telephone	5
12)           Improve listening skills	4
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.     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:

1.     Improve listening skills: try to practice understanding every single words in live news.        

3.     Improve listening skills: Grouped the students by every two students and practice small talks in English 

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

     Though I began learning English from middle school, I can't express my thought and feeling freely in English by now. I can't have a deep conversation with others or couldn't explain the complicated situation and reasons.