Sequencing the content in a course

Sequencing the content in a course

1. Skill

   • Talk about:Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing

2. Subskills

   • Important to consider subskills or strategies
   • 3 major ways of subskills
     • 1st Way
       • Use starting points then go in a progress.
     • 2nd Way
       • Devide the skill and use the subskills in a process to create an activity with an specific subskill.
     • 3rd way
       • Use a cognitive activity using Bloom's taxonomy.
     • Examples: Skill - Listening Subskill -Understanding facts and figures. Strategies - Listen and answer the questions.

3. Sequencing the content in a course

   • Linear Development
     • - It's like a sequency. - Depend on the learning that has ocurres in previous lesson. - We use this in a progress.
     • Most language course involve linear development.
       • - There are not match with a progress. -It also follows the CFL standars. - Begin with simple frequent items that prepare for later more complex items.
     • Variations of linear progressions which try to take account of the need for repetition
       • Spiral curriculum
         • A spiral curriculum can be defined as a course of study in wihich students will see the same topics throughout their school career, with each encounter increasing in complexity and reinforcing previous learning.
       • Matrix models
         • It's similar like a spiral curriculum. Have similar advantages to a spiral curriculum .
       • Revision units
         • Refers to review preview topics
       • Field approaches to sequencing materials
         • Emphasize information with other subjects
   • Modular Arrongement
     • - The lessons can be done in any order. - The lessons are separate for a progressive information.