Abstract
Needs analysis plays a vital role in developing academic writing material and is a systematic powerful tool that helps teachers design materials regarding the students learning needs.This research aimed at analyzing the types of students' learning needs for material development in the academic writing course.This research employs a descriptive qualitative study in identifying the students' learning needs through questionnaires and semi-structured interviews.The respondents are English education study program during the fifth semester and two lecturers of an academic writing course in the academic year 2021/2022.The result shows that most students were preferred a learning model which learning activities related to grammar, writing topics which supported with a picture, learning writing which focuses on the aims of writing text, teacher as a controller during learning activities, followed by feedback giver in the writing activity of the text to be written, the assessor in teaching writing skills, and facilitator to maximize the potential of the learner as the teacher roles.Regarding students' roles, most students agreed with students' role as reviser drafts of writing text and students' role as the drafter.Most of the respondents also agreed the class situation ought to learn in small group learning as a classroom setting.