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NEEDS ANALYSIS

Needs Analysis
The Needs Analysis conducted within the framework of Athina demonstrated the wide diversity of the target group. Students of modern greek have some things in common. Nonetheless, the differences are numerous. The right side of this page contains the main results of the Analysis.

Pedagogical Objectives
The material was produced in accordance with the results of the Needs Analysis conducted.

Technological Objectives
The needs analysis demonstrated, that the flexibility of Open Distance Learning should be an integral part of Athina.

The results of this inquiry demonstrated a remarkable diversity of the target group. The general results could be summarized as follows:

There were significant differences in prior knowledge of greek
Although students had a common background (significant knowledge of other languages - high educational level - mostly basic knowledge of ancient Greek) their motives for learning modern Greek ranged from simple curiosity to an academic interest for an understanding of the differences between modern and ancient Greek.
Despite this, their expressed needs were more or less common. For instance in answering the question " Please rank the skills you would like to develop after attending this course", more than 90% ranked their need to communicate first.
Important similarities were noted in the expression of preferences towards the teaching method. Most of the students practically depicted the communicative approach in non technical terms.

A question that remains open is, whether these results can be generalized to include the whole target group of greek learners. There are not many similar analyses, and most of the existing analyses were primarily targeted at beginners.