the ELT curriculum: A flexible model

the ELT curriculum: A flexible model

1. to curriculum desing which have sprung up in the last four dacades language is comunication, and as teacher we must develop in our learners the ability to comunicate effectively

2. THE CONTENT MODEL:CLASSICAL HUMANISM

   • In the classical humanist tradition, the understanding ofwhich contributes to the overral intellectual develonment of the learner, this model has been the dominant philosophy underlying the history.

3. THE OBJETIVES MODEL:RECONSTRUCTIONISM

   • This model of curriculum planning is longer the content, but the objetives of the teaching- learning program; as such, it relates to the secund educational tradition. its origins live in the movement por the scientificmanagement of education and the word of behavioral psychologists in the firt half of the twentieth century.

4. THE PROCESS MODEL PROGRESSIVISM

   • Kelly proposes the to curriculum planning which attempts to ideal with this " value issue as the prime concern in educational planning". it is concerned with the development of understanding, not just the passive reception of knowledge or the acquisitionn of specific akills.

5. THE NEW PRAGMATISM: A MIXED FOCUS CURRICULUM

   • A focus on the learner and learning, evaluation at every stage, and most important the need for interaction between and integretion of the different aspects of the desing and implementation process
   • curriculum policy.
     • the role of the policy maker who establishes the broad principles and purposees of the curriculum and expresses them in a curriculum desing document
   • NEEDS ANALYSIS
     • The results of the needs analysis are applied in the development of programme objetives and in the choice of apropiate teaching metholodogy
   • SILLABUS DESING
     • expressed in the form of goals learning objetives

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