Chapter 5: Analyzing Learners and Contexts (Dick & Carey, 2001) (Week 3)

In Chapter 5, while analyzing the learners, first you should first determine the “target population”. You cannot teach someone (a child, a teenager, an adult..etc) who does not want to learn. So the instructors should gain the attraction of the learners by relating the subject “to their interests”. Therefore the learners will feel more interested in the subject, and they are going to be more likely to achieve the goal of the instruction.

                During the design of the instruction, designers should also give importance to the setting where the target “skill will be used”. The environment where the learners use their new knowledge is important as well. From my point of view as an English teacher, creating corridors or classes like Oxford Street, London, New York etc. I think teaching the culture of the target language is as important as teaching the language itself. The learners should be exposed to the target language as much as they can be.

                About the Context Analysis of Learning Environment part, the designer should check the current situation of the learning environment, and determine what can be added like “types of equipment and resources” in order to facilitate learning.

                So there was a question in the evaluation part which makes me think about: “How would they describe it in their own words?” If a subject is well-known you can paraphrasing it easily and without any help. So taking and giving feedback is one of the crucial steps of the ID process. 

                  I want to show a video about Analyzing the learner. Hope it will help :)