A Framework of Course Development Processes

A Framework of Course Development Processes

1. Needs assessment

   • Needs
     • Constraints
     • Motivation
     • Wants
     • Desires
     • Demands
     • Expectation
     • Requirements
     • Objective
       • Use for language
         • Real-life
         • Proficiency
     • Subjective
       • Affective - Cognitive
         • -Personality -Confidence -Attitudes
   • Seeking - Interpreting
     • One's students needs
     • Effectiveness

2. Determining goals and objectives

   • Objective
     • Points to accomplish
   • Goals
     • General statements
     • Destination
     • Proficiency
       • General competences
         • Speaking
         • Listening
         • Reading
         • Writing
     • Transfer
       • Learning how to learn
     • Cognitive
       • Mastery
         • Linguistic knowledge
         • Cultural knowledge
     • Affective
       • -Positive attitudes -Feelings
         • Target language

3. Conceptualizing Content

   • Figure out
     • Aspects of language
       • Will be
         • Include
         • Emphasize
         • Integrate

4. Selecting and developing materials and activities

   • -Collecting -Adapting
     • Materia
       • Effectiveness
         • Achieve purposes
       • Apripietness
         • Students
         • Teachers

5. Organization of content and activities

   • Building
     • Simple to complex
       • One activity feeds into another
   • Recycling
     • Previous material in a new way
       • Challenges to students
       • Integrating Students
   • Cycle
     • Activities follow a sequence
   • Matrix
     • Possible activities

6. Evaluation

   • More than one purposes
   • -Tests -Clasroom Activities -Portfolio
   • Evaluation for the couse
     • Promote - improve course effectiveness
   • Everything can be evaluated
   • Formative evaluation
     • During the implementation of the curriculum
       • Modifying purpose
   • Summative evaluation
     • After curriculum implementation
       • Evaluating its success
   • Ways of evaluate
     • Observation
     • Informal chats
     • Written - oral input

7. Consideration of resources and constraints

   • Defining the challenges
     • Make decision about what to do
       • Past successes
   • Tangible - Intangible resources
     • Adjust teaching priorities
   • Numbers - Level - Cultural background of students
   • Teache's experience

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