Business Speaking and Listening Needs Analysis

To be completed at home or in class

Which of these skills are most important for you/ in your job (please list from 1 to 7)?

- Speaking

- Listening

- Reading

- Writing

- Pronunciation

- Grammar

- Vocabulary

Which do you need most practise on (top 3)?

 

 

 

Speaking

For you, does improving your speaking mean…

- Grammatical accuracy

- Pronunciation

- Vocabulary

What level do you aim for your speaking to reach:

- Indistinguishable from a native speaker

- Able to communicate

- Able to communicate easily

- Lose my accent

- Impress people with my pronunciation

- Impress people with my fluency

What would your reaction be if someone said about you ‘He has a really strong accent’?

 

Listening

When you listen to people speak and have difficulty understanding, why exactly is it?

(Please put a number for each from 5- very often true to 1- never true)

- You simply don’t know the words they are using

- You know the words, but don’t recognise them when you hear them

- You recognise the words individually, but miss them when they are put together in linked speech

- When you are concentrating on the meaning of one word, you miss the rest of the sentence

- They are speaking too fast

- They have a particular accent you find difficult

 

How much of your time is spent speaking to native speakers? _______ %

Where are they from? _______________

What other nationalities do you usually speak English with?

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