Curriculum and Course Design

Curriculum and Course Design

1. Curriculum

   • Language learning
   • Reflective
     • National and political trends
   • Theoretical observation
   • Philosofical, social and administrative factors
   • Beliefs, values and theories
   • Broad, general, philosophical, theoretical
   • May generate syllabuses
   • Viewpoints
     • Nature of language
     • Nature of language learning
     • Educational-cultural
     • Role of language learning
       • Learner's context
         • Social
         • Cultural
   • Decisions
     • Objectives of program
     • Content
       • Syllabus
     • Method
     • Program evaluation
   • Process
     • Pedagogical interaction
       • Understanding of learning
   • Products of decision-making

2. Syllabus

   • Philosophy of the curriculum
     • Planned steps
       • Defined objectives
   • Beliefs, values and theories
     • Step by step instructional program
   • Detailed, operational, narrowly defined, specification, steps
   • What units will be taught
   • It is related to method
   • Student's needs

3. Approach

   • Comunicative approach
     • Function of language: communicative
       • Language structured
       • Meaningful interaction
   • Rise to different methods

4. Method

   • Subordinated to the approach
   • An overall plan
   • Way an approach is realized in practice
     • Design
     • Procedures
   • The what
     • Specifications
       • Selection of content of instruction
       • Organization of content of instruction
   • The how
     • Classroom techniques
     • Classroom practices
   • The why
     • Theories
       • Language
       • Language learning
   • Rise to different coursebooks
     • Syllabus
     • Instructional materials

5. Timetable

   • Sequence of lessons at a time
     • Length and frequency of lessons
   • Method affects it
   • Variety
     • Counter-productive
     • Disoriented students
   • Cohesion
     • Linking of lesson with lesson
       • Avoids excess of variety
       • Needs satisfactory coverage
       • Lesson
         • Smallest unit of planning
         • Smallest coherent unit of teaching
       • Means-ends model
         • Planning on the objective
           • Planning the means of achieveing
       • General notion of fit
         • Local factors
         • Constitution and temprament of class
         • Nature and resource of teching contest
       • Specific skill
       • Linguistic focus
       • Cohesion of lesson
   • Coverage

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