《第二语言需求分析》集中反映了Long对需求分析的兴趣和研究成果。全书包括1篇总论和11篇论文。总论高屋建瓴地说明了需求分析的理论基础，并对全书内容做了初步介绍。其后的专题论文分为五部分。“工欲善其事，必先利其器”，故第一部分先谈方法问题，只有Michael H.Long的一篇论文。接下来的三部分属于三个领域：公共领域(2篇论文)、职业领域(4篇论文)以及学术领域(1篇论文)。最后部分的3篇论文着重分析以上领域之外的目的语语篇。

在外语教学过程中，需求分析足外语课程设计的基础，也是教师组织教学、使用教材、决定教学方法和评估教学的基础。

《第二语言需求分析》论述了需求分析的理论、方法和实践，内容丰富，涉及了多个国家多个行业的需求分析，研究设计严谨，方法值得借鉴，其结论对我国外语教育也有所启发。

《第二语言需求分析》由Michael H.Long编著。

List of contributors

Acknowledgments

Overview: A rationale for needs analysis and needs analysis research

Michael H. Long

Methodological issues

Chapter 1 Methodological issues in learner needs analysis

Michael H. Long

The public sector

Chapter 2 Language needs analysis at the societal level

Richard D. Brecht & William. P. Rivers

Chapter 3 Foreign language needs assessment in the

US military

John A. Lett

The occupational sector

Chapter 4 Sources, methods and triangulation in needs analysis: A critical perspective in a case study of Waikiki hotel maids

Rebeca Jasso-Aguilar

Chapter 5 Foreign language need of business firms

Sonja Vandermeeren

Chapter 6 Evaluating the use of multiple sources and methods in needs analysis: A case study of journalists in the

Autonomous Community of Catalonia （Spain）

Roger Gilabert

Chapter 7 "Feet speak louder than the tongue": A preliminary analysis of language provisions for foreign professional footballers in the Netherlands

Eric Kellerman, Hella Koonen, &Monique van der Haagen

The academic sector

Chapter 8 A task-based needs analysis of a tertiary Korean as a foreign language program

Craig Chaudron, Catherine J. Doughty,Youngkyu Kim, Dong-kwan Kong, Jinhwa Lee,Young-geun Lee, Michael H. Long, Rachel Rivers,Ken Urano

Analyzing target discourse

Chapter 9 Collecting target discourse: The case of the US naturalization interview

Michelle Winn

Chapter 10 A double shot 2% mocha latte, please, with whip:

Service encounters in two coffee shops and at a coffee cart

Nicola J. Downey Bartlett

Chapter 11 When small talk is a big deal: Sociolinguistic challenges in the workplace

Janet Holmes

Index