Open AccessNeeds analysis for a portuguese curriculum design: profiling the academic community
Author(s) -
Aline Jéssica Antunes,
Cristina Becker Lopes Perna
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
revista entrelínguas
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2447-4045
pISSN - 2447-3529
DOI - 10.29051/el.v7iesp.6.15440
Subject(s) - profiling (computer programming) , curriculum , portuguese , needs analysis , computer science , pragmatics , mathematics education , academic community , sociology , pedagogy , psychology , linguistics , library science , programming language , philosophy
This article discusses one of the crucial steps in the development of a curriculum for an online course of Brazilian Portuguese to international students: the needs analysis. The study relies on a theoretical framework for curriculum in language courses, pragmatics for language teaching, and the impact of a solid needs analysis for the curriculum. Results suggest that, besides the complexity of choosing questions and verifying the patterns in the answers, a needs analysis is a valuable tool for profiling an academic community and identifying lacks and wants in a teaching and learning process.