From syllabus design to curriculum development

From syllabus design to curriculum development

1. The quest for new methods

   • Situational Language Teaching
   • TESL/TEFL approach
   • Audiolingual Method

2. Changing needs for foreign languages in Europe

   • Reevaluation of language teaching policy
     • CLT emerged as a new direction for language teaching

3. English for specific purposes

   • The ESP Ss is usually studying English in order to carry out a particular role
     • Situational language courses
       • Scientific English
       • Business English
       • Technical English
     • Register analysis and discourse analysis

4. Needs analysis in ESP

   • Analysis of the learner's needs
     • Restriction
     • Selection
     • Themes and topics
     • Communicative needs
   • Profile of communicative needs
     • Personal
     • Purpose
     • Setting
     • Interactional variables
     • Medium, mode, and channel
     • Dialects
     • Target level
     • Anticipated communicative events
     • Key

5. Communicative language teaching

   • How language is used by speakers in different contexts of communication

6. Emergence of a curriculum approach in language teaching

   • Aims and objectives --> what?
   • Content --> by which?
   • Organization --> in which order?
   • Evaluation --> how to evaluate?

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