A Framework of course development (processes for teachers).

A Framework of course development (processes for teachers).

1. Organization of content and activities

   • Recycling materials help students to join their previous knowledge with the new one
   • In a matrix approach, the teacher decides which activity (ies) to work with

2. Determing goals and objectives

   • Student's needs analysis
     • Clear goals and objectives to determine an appropiate content and activities

3. Needs assessment

   • Seeking and interpreting information about student's neeeds
     • Can also be a teaching tool to determine needs
     • Objectives needs
     • subjective needs

4. Conceptualizing content

   • Figuring out which aspects of language-learning will be included in the course
     • Participatory process,Learning strategies,content
     • Culture, tasks and activities,competencies.
     • Listening skills,speaking skills,reading skills, writing skills.
     • Functions,notions and topics,communicative situations
     • Grammar,pronunciation,vocabulary.

5. Selecting and developing materials and activities

   • Finding out proper and flexible materials
     • Taking into account students'
       • Needs
       • Abilities
       • Interest

6. Evaluation

   • teacher evaluates students throughout the course development
     • Why does one evaluate?
     • What can be evaluate?
     • what can be evaluate? and How does one evaluate?

7. consideration of resources and constraints

   • Some resources and contrains are tangibles and others no.
   • teachers always must considerate the time students meet in the course
   • Teachers must coonsiderate the context and situations of the course.
   • teachers must take into account contrains to know what they can change and when to start.

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