Презентация на тему Course Design and syllabus development

English language learners?
What did you have to take

into consideration, when you designed your course?
What were your resources and challenges?

integrated series of teaching-learning experiences, whose ultimate aim is

to lead the learners to a particular state of knowledge”
(Hutchinson and Waters 1996: 65)
General English course, Survival English course, English for Doctors, English for Aviation, English for Academic Purposes (EAP)
 

it mean to be proficient in the language?
How

can you motivate students to be better learners of the language?
Relating teaching to life experiences; consider SSs learning styles
How can your teaching style affect your learners?

goals and objectives
A list of competencies achieved by the

students
A needs assessment questionnaire
A test bank
A syllabus

basis for your work. It can be:
a course you

have taught and want to redesign
a course you are planning to teach
a course in which you are or have been a learner
Follow the process of course design to develop a syllabus for your course. Present your syllabus in class at the end of the semester.

will be used in a language course and provides

the basis for its instructional focus and content
Consists of a comprehensive list of items to be taught in the course - content items (words, structures, topics) and process items (tasks, methods)
Includes explicit objectives, time schedules, methodology or approach, recommended reading materials etc…

to levels:
Elementary level: 1.000 words
Intermediate level: an additional 2,000

words
Upper Intermediate level: an additional 2,000 words
Advanced level: an additional 2,000+ words

in overall communicative ability
Things that learners can do with

the language:
Suggesting, promising, apologizing, greeting, inviting, requesting, complaining, suggesting, agreeing etc.

situations
Advantages/disadvantages?

other units of content.
With a topical syllabus, content

rather than grammar, functions, or situations is the starting point in syllabus design.
An example:
Television
Modern architecture
Advertising
Ecology
Alternative energy

are involved in using a language for purposes such

as reading, writing, listening, or speaking

in the target language
A task is an activity or

goal that is carried out using language such as finding a solution to a puzzle, reading a map dad giving directions, or reading a set of instructions and assembling a toy (Skehan 1996, 20)
Tasks can be pedagogical (information-gap tasks, matching etc.) and real-life (decision-making, opinion exchange, problem solving etc.)

to personalize your syllabus?