Needs Analysis And English Reading Teaching In Jiao Tong Vocational And Technical College

This paper mainly discusses needs analysis and its application in English reading teaching.The paper consists of four parts. Part 1 is a survey on needs analysis from three aspects. Part 2 chiefly introduces the researches on the students' reading needs. Part 3 talks abput the reading teaching based on the students' needs analysis. Part 4 is a conclusion.Through the surveys on needs analysis, the author finds out that although many researchers have done a lot of work on needs analysis, little is mentioned of its application to English reading teaching. The classifications are not very clear. The methods, introduced by researchers, are too complex and cannot easily be operated to learn the students' needs on reading teaching.In order to apply needs analysis to English reading teaching, the author designs some questions to collect the students' needs for English reading. Questionnaires, tests, self-comments, etc. are also used. The students' needs are analyzed, classified and compared with the requirements of the syllabus. According to the researches, the author notices that the students have various needs and their English reading level is low. So it is necessary to improve their reading ability. In order to evaluate the reading teaching based on the students' needs analysis. Class 03115 and Class 03114 are chosen for experiment.Class 03115 is taught on the basis of needs analysis, while Class 03114, as a control group, is not. After a term of training, another series of researches are made to find out how needs analysis influences English reading teaching. Final results show obviously that needs analysis really influences reading teaching. Class 03115 makes great progress in reading speed, comprehension rate, vocabulary, grammar, etc. The ending reading level is higher than the starting reading level. Unlike Class 03115, Class 03114 is not taught on the basis of students' needs analysis and its teaching is carried out according to the syllabus. Although the students of Class 03114 have different needs, their needs are not paid much attention to during the reading teaching. Class 03114 makes little progress in each aspect of reading compared with Class 03115.According to the surveys and the students' reading needs researches, the reading teaching based on needs analysis is helpful to improve students' reading ability. Students' reading needs analysis affects English reading leaching. It plays an important role in the reading teaching. The students' needs are satisfied basically and this kind of reading teaching is efficient.However, the reading teaching researches are still to be made to further improve reading ability in the future. There are a lot of problems to be solved in needs analysis.