Examining the needs of Iranian middle school students in foreign language learning

Nowadays, student-oriented teaching has shown itself as a necessary matter for a productive process of education. Consequently, students inevitably should be considered at the center of teaching and learning practices. Theses instructional practices require English language teachers to analyze students' needs. English language learners start learning English with different needs and purposes. This hot topic has inspired many researchers to do some researches on EFL language learners and analyze their specific needs in learning language. Not surprisingly, they were satisfied with obtained results in this field, because they considered the basic principles English for specific purposes and English for general purpose principles of language learners' need analysis (West, ۱۹۹۴).

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, school students , foreign , language learning