Assessment of needs from the individual learner's perspective is an important part of any program design and it can benefit both teachers and students alike. The learner-centered approach to language learning builds on the premise that teaching/learning programs should be responsive to learners needs. ESP begins with the learner and the situation, learner needs leading to a research area known as needs analysis. Hence, the needs analysis initiates and guides ESP curriculum development, involving surveying the learners to collect data on their background and goals, linguistic and behavioral demands, and preferred learning/teaching strategies. Students' needs analysis remains fundamental to the unifying feature of any ESP course is the definition of objectives and content of each course according to learners' functional needs in the target language and how the students are expected to perform in conforming to the norms and conventions of their academic disciplines. Needs analysis should be considered as an on-going process designed to gather and analyze information about the target language needs of learners in an existing or proposed setting and to find out whether the program's objectives and the learners' requirements are being achieved and for planning the learners' and the program's future directions and making informed decisions.