A9.Villacis.Erick.Contextos

ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE

ECUADORIAN CURRICULUM

Main goals

1. To develop learners’ understanding of the world

2. To develop the personal, social, and intellectual skills

3. To develop the personal, social, and intellectual skills

Educacion General Básica E.G.B

A1-A2 (CEFR)

Bachillerato General Unificado B.G.U

A2-B1 (CEFR)

For both school levels the ELT area has been organized into five sections

1) Communication and Cultural Awareness

2) Oral Communication (Listening and Speaking)

3) Reading

4) Writing

5) Language through the Arts

Profile of the Ecuadorian High School Graduate

1. Justice

2. Innovation

3. Solidarity

Exit profile

By the end of high school learners will be able to:

General Objectives

OG.EFL 1 Encounter socio-cultural aspects of their own and other countries in a thoughtful and inquisitive manner (...)

OG.EFL 2 (...) tolerance towards different cultures to comprehend the role of diversity (...)

OG.EFL 3 Access greater flexibility of mind, (...) through an appreciation of linguistic differences

OG.EFL 4 Deploy a range of learning strategies, thereby increasing disposition and ability to independently access further (language) learning and practice opportunities.

OG. EFL 5,6,7

Graduating from 7th EGB with an A2 level, a large amount of the language learned in these levels will be recycled in the first years of Educación General Básica Superior (8th, 9th, 10th EGB) but within a different context and combined with new language, more appropriate in this case for young teenagers.

21st Century skills developed through learning English

Global Engagement:

To develop learners’ understanding of the world

Social and thinking skills

To develop the personal, social and intellectual skills needed to achieve their potential to participate productively

Foundation for lifelong learning

To create a love of learning languages starting at a young age

Epistemological Foundations

The epistemological foundations of the EFL curriculum refer to how learners learn languages and therefore, how they should be taught.

Approach

Constructivist

References

Ministerio de Educación. (2016). English as a foreing language. Ministerio de Educacion del Ecuador. Currículo E.GB Y B.G.U