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Curriculum Approaches in Language Teaching

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Overrall design and content for a course
- It has to do with
  - Backwar design
    - it starts with
      - Desired results (outcomes)
        output>process>input
        this may be attained through
        Setting clear objectives,content selection and organization of learning experiences
  - Central design process
    - It starts with teaching activities, techniques and methods
      - input and output are dealt with after
        when a methodology has already being chosen, or developed during the teaching process
        then it goes with
        methodology, content and outcomes
  - Forward design
    - content of instruction needs to be solved before anything
      - syllabus planing- methodology and Assessment-Learning outcomes
        The order is
        Input>process>output
        one example
        content based learning, developing language preficiency
- Curriculum is
- its purpose has to do with
  - to works as a guide to attan the aims of the class
input
- it makes reference to
  - linguistic contents of the course and the organization of itself
    - its result is
      - syllabus
Output
- IT IS
  - what students can produce
    - level of achievement on a proficiency scale