2.3.1. A Pre-Course Needs Analysis
The key to beginning a successful grammar course is to clearly establish the students' interests and motivations. As part of a preliminary grammar course, the teacher is expected to get the students talk about what they like with an emphasis on usage of grammar in their studies, careers, jobs, and communication. The list resulting from the needs analysis may have prerequisites. We therefore need to decide with the students what their objectives for the coming course will be, for example: to develop their ability to discuss certain topics with more confidence, fluency, accuracy and awareness of relevant language.
With regard to these prerequisites, the research carried out aimed to make students’ feedback for some foregrounded questions the basic starting point. The issue that university students try to manifest in their studying the course of grammar has usually been their desperate need to satisfy their academic needs.
Through a random selection, 36 university students from the English department (semester4) were handed a questionnaire as a pre-test needs analysis. The students were asked to respond according to their general needs while studying grammar.