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Curriculum Development in Language Teaching - Coggle Diagram
Curriculum Development in Language Teaching
Definitions
What is a curriculum?
It is a plan designed for selecting, presenting, and teaching the content of a course in order to achieve some predetermined outcomes or objectives.
This plan also includes evaluation procedures that measure how much the course has helped learners achieve the intended objectives or learning outcomes.
What is curriculim development?
Consist of setting the learning objectives selecting the contents to be taught designing a method of implementation and finally deciding on the procedures which should be followed in order to evaluate the effectiveness of the curriculum.
To start a curriculum development we need first to collect information about the:
1.The target language.
2.The learners.
3.The delivery system.
4.The learning theory.
5.The teaching theory.
6.The evaluation procedures.
Processes of Curriculum Development
Needs Analysis
Provides a description of the language needs in the real-world, the types of tasks needed to learn a language and the language skills, behaviors, attitudes and motivations needed to succeed in language learning.
Goal Setting
Consist of identifying the objectives of the teaching learning program. Generally speaking four types of objectives must be determined while planning a language curriculum these refer to:
1.Behavioral objectives.
2.Content objectives.
3.Process Objectives.
4.Proficiency objectives.
Syllabus Design
Aims at selecting, presenting, and organizing either the language content including grammar vocabulary functions and skills, or the teaching procedures such as activities tasks exercises and techniques to be used in teaching.
Lingustic syllabus:
1.Structural syllabus.
2.Functional syllabus.
Procedural syllabus:
Process-oriented syllabys.
Methodology
Involves choosing a suitable teaching methodology the choice of a teaching methodology or method to be used depends highly on three major dimensions:
1.A linguistic dimension
2.A psycholinguistic dimension
3.A teaching dimension.
Evaluation
The goal of this process is to find out wheter the goals and objectives of a language teaching program are being attained the evaluation of a curriculum or a program helps to determine the extent to which it is effective in this respect two types of evaluation:
1.Formative.
2.Summative.
Designs of Curriculum Development
1.Forward design: It gives importance to the syllabys input.
2.Central design: It has drawn attention to the methodological processes.
3.Backward design: It has stressed the importance of goal setting and predefining learning outcomes.