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CURRICULUM AND COURSE DESIGN

Many decisions of it are out of the teacher hands.

CURRICULUM

SYLLABUS

Description of general goals.

Overall-educational-cultural philosofy with respect to the subject matter.

An operational statement of teaching and learning elements

A series of planned steps leading towardsmore narrowly defined objectives at each level.

Dubin and Olshatin model (1986)

Broad, general, philosophical, theoretical

Detailed, operational, narrowly defined, specification, steps

sets of beliefs

nature of language

educational-cultural viewpoint

role of language learning

To determine the approach and method of teaching.

Lier (1996) defifinition

A holistic process

Every part and action must be understood in an integrative way in relation to all other parts .

Beliefs

Decisions

Products

In the public-sector

Embodied as acts of parliament, policy statements and official bulletins.

Types

Holistic

The situational and thematic choices are made once the linguistic content has been established.

For example

The audiolingual method which emphasised a careful sequencing of grammatical structures, presented and repeated with gradual memorisation of the dialogue.

Breaking the language into bits can help to focus students on a particular aspect of the language.

Great emphasis on meaningful communication from the learners´point of view

ADVANTAGES

For example

It will sect items the learner needs to know in ordert to get things done.

Learners experiment a focus on function, fluency and use of the language.

ADVANTAGES

Traditional

REFERENCES

Universidad IEXPRO. (n.d). Curriculum and Course Design-Principles and Practice.

British Council (n.d). Which syllabus: The traditional and the holistic syllabus, accessed 03 November , <https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/article/syllabus>