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process of analyzing
the curriculum
from research
Purpose of the study
To examine the overarching framework of EFL reading instructional method that is reflected in an EFL secondary school curriculum in Malaysia.
Introduction
Many non-English speaking countries promote English proficiency as an effort toward modernization and internalization
Reading is an important part of language proficiency that affects academic literacy and success.
The importance of the English language has been established universally as a tool for social, economic, and political success
Students’ ability to read well becomes imperative for academic success provided that their reading ability translates to information literacy
Impact analysis
Students are not able to read and understand well materials in the English language.
Although the participants were categorized as being intermediately proficient, they still had difficulties in sentence processing when reading English texts.
EFL Reading issues in Malaysia
College students are faced with literacy problems in EFL which subsequently affect their academic performance
They stated that “being in the upper secondary, students know the importance of English for tertiary education and yet they show disinterest in the learning of the language”
Analysis of Types of Learning and Teaching Activities
reading tasks in both documents focused on training students on psycholinguistic processes more than communicative activities.
Analysis of Second Language Reading Theory
reading tasks in the EFL secondary reading curriculum and the Form Five EFL textbook respectively were developed based on the cognitive view instead of the social view
Designed analysis
The current study does not include classroom observation, it is reasonable to infer that EFL reading instruction in the classrooms is commonly in the form of individual student reading and post-reading activities using initiation-response-evaluation (IRE)
Communicative Language Teaching
that is the shift of focus towards the importance of having students to be actively engaged with the text as well as linking social context and cognitive development (Vygotsky, 1987)
an organization of Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) around a specification of communication tasks”.
In contrast to direct teaching approach
viewed as a learner-centered approach
Analysis of Teacher Function
Director
Catalyst
Consultant
promote the teacher’s function as a director than a catalyst and a consultant
Analysis of Teacher Control and Learner Autonomy
EFL reading curriculum emphasizes teacher control over learner autonomy in the suggested EFL reading instruction.
Policy analysis
The Textbook Division of the Malaysian Ministry of Education emphasizes that the exercises in the textbook must conform to the form of public examination questions
the Form Five EFL reading curriculum to be more of a CLT in nature, it has to be developed primarily based on the social view of language learning surrounding the development of cognition as proposed by the socio-cultural theory (SCT).
CLT as a general approach to L2 instruction is based on the theory of language as communication with the goal of developing communicative competence
grammatical competence
sociolinguistic competence
discourse competence
strategic competence