Language Curriculum Design

Language Curriculum Design

1. Goals

   • Reason why a course is been thought
   • What the learners need to achieve

2. Content and Sequencing

   • Content
     • Language items, ideas, skills and strategies
   • Frequency lists

3. Finding a format and Presenting Material

   • Advantages
     • Lessons easier to make
       • Course easier to monitor
         • Leassons easier to make
   • Suitable teaching techniques and procedures

4. Discovering Needs

   • Needs analysis
     • through
       • Reliability. Validity and Practicality
   • Priorities
     • S.S. Lacks. Necessities and Wants
       • Lacks: What the learner does not know already. Wants:What the learner wants to know. Necessities: What the learner has to know.

5. Folowing Principles

   • Importance of repetition
   • Learning Styles
   • Learner attitudes and motivation

6. Considering Enviroment

   • Analyzes
     • Factors of situation
       • Material
         • List of main factors
           • Factors which you think will have the most strongest effects on designing your curriculum.
         • List of questions
           • The questions must be focused on the nature of the learners.

7. Monitoring and Assesing

   • Monitoring
     • Checklists Report Forms. Learning Logs. Diaries
   • Assesing
     • Usage of tests
       • Profiency. Achievement. Short-Term Achievement.

8. Evaluating a Course

   • Porpuses
     • Continue or disontinue the class
   • Determines
     • Effectiveness of a course

9. Information taken from the book "Language Curriculum Design" by John Macalister