CURRICULUM AND COURSE DESIGN: DEFITINITIONS

CURRICULUM AND COURSE DESIGN: DEFITINITIONS

1. CURRICULUM AND SYLLABUS

   • Curriculum:
     • A broad description of goals.
     • It is often reflective of national and political trends
     • Broad, general, philosophical and theoretical.
     • Beliefs about the nature of language.
     • Beliefs about the nature of language learning.
     • Beliefs about education.
     • It incorporates decisions of four types:
       • Objectives and goals.
       • The content.
       • The method of instruction
       • How the programme is evaluated.
     • It is considered the "product".
       • "What is" rather than "what should be"
     • Holistic and process sence
       • It is an integrative way
   • Syllabus:
     • A more detailed and operational statement of teaching and learning.
     • Series of planned steps.
     • Defined objectives.
     • Detailed, operational, narrowly defined, specification and steps.
     • It focuses more narrowly on selection and grading.
     • It consists on a comprehensible list of content and process items
     • It may indicate preferred methodology or approach.
     • It is related to cognitive aspects.