Needs assessment survey of language teachers developing professional skills

It is highly significant that the skills of the teachers in this globalised and standardized world should be updated up to the expectations of their wards/students in the classroom. As this profession seemed to be highly challenging and risky where the participants are technology driven, language teachers working in schools should be highly proficient and competent as for as communicable English is concerned. Mushroom growth of technological devices has paved the way for vast knowledge enrichment by the learner community. Even though teachers are qualified as per the norms prescribed, they have to have excellent proficiency in terms of vocabulary, grammatical structures, and so on. Studies on students of various disciplines regarding skills deficiencies, needs analysis, etc. have been carried on by researchers. But very less number of studies conducted on identification of language needs of the prospective teachers (B.Ed./M.Ed.) students which is the need of the hour. They are training in the methodology of teaching like micro-teaching, macro-teaching, evaluation measures, etc whereas the communication needs of these students are highly neglected area as for as research studies are concerned. Hence, this study attempts to identify the language needs of the teachers working in the schools of Tiruvannamalai District, Tamilnadu.