The ELT Curriculum

The ELT Curriculum

1. Program of Education

   • Planning
   • implementation
   • Evaluation

2. Classical Humanism

   • Ignores factors
     • Context
     • Appropriacy of use
     • Modes of discourse
     • Individual learner needs
   • Cultural heritage
   • The context as central focus
   • Not take into account
     • abilities
     • Problems of the individual learner
   • Assessment
     • Ability to produce grammatically language

3. Reconstructionism

   • Appropiate in
     • Foreign language learning
     • Vocational training
     • Transmition of skills
   • Criticisms
     • Personal development
     • Autonomy
     • Self fulfilment
   • The attraction
     • Accoutability
     • Ease of evaluation
     • Clarity of goals
   • Bring social change
   • Origin
     • Management of education
     • Work of behavioural psychologists

4. Progressivism

   • Purpose
     • The individual to progress towards self-fulfilment.
     • Formulation of objectives related to the procedural principles
     • Rests on concepts of learner needs
   • Awareness
   • Development of understanding
   • Possibilities for future learning