A FRAMEWORK OF COURSE DEVELOPMENT PROCESSES

A FRAMEWORK OF COURSE DEVELOPMENT PROCESSES

1. Needs Assessment

   • What students need to learn or do
   • Ojective needs
     • Students' backgrounds
       • country and culture, education, family, profession, age, languages spoken, and so on.
   • Subjective needs
     • Students' attitudes
       • toward the target language and culture, toward learning, and toward themselves as learners.

2. Determining goals and objectives

   • Goals
     • are general statements of the overall,long-term purposes of the course .
       • The goals of a course represent the destination
   • Objectives
     • express the specific ways in which the goals will be achieved.The
       • the various points that chart the cours e towar d the destination.

3. Conceptualizing content

   • When teachers conceptualizes content,
     • they are figuring out which aspects of language and language learning,
       • they will include, emphasize, and integrate in their course .

4. Selecting and developing materials and activities

   • Choosing material may mean development of new material
     • there are no suitable materials, collecting a variety of materials, or adapting existing materials.
   • Developing new materials and activities for using them requires:
     • time and a clear sense of why tliey will be used, how, and by whom.

5. Organization of content and activities

   • One follows a fixed sequence or adopts a more fluid approach to the order in which one teaches the content
   • part of course development is figuring out systems for organizing the course.
     • Systems can focus on the lesson level (the organization of each lesson)
       • on the cours e level (the overall organization of the course).

6. Evaluation

   • Evaluation in course development includes evaluation of the course itself.
     • Was the course effective? In what ways? Where did it fall short ?