Congruity or Disparity: Teachers’ Assessment of the New Palestinian English Language School Curriculum  

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Fattash, Maher M.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: TESOL Journal vol. 2 (Jun. 2010), page 189-206.
Topik: congruity; disparity; implementation; evaluation; training; communicative
Fulltext: Congruity or Disparity.pdf (285.8KB)

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Ongoing assessment of a language curriculum ensures its workability and sustainability and keeps the process of learning on the right track. This study aims at assessing the congruity of the new Palestinian English Language School Curriculum, which has been recently introduced, with the requirements and aspects of the most recent language teaching method i.e. the Communicative Approach. It aims at investigating the teachers' views of the various skills embodied in the contents of this curriculum, and attempts to find out whether the requirements and aspects of the communicative curriculum are taken into consideration. For this purpose a questionnaire was prepared, administered and distributed among hundred and twenty seven English language teachers representing the total population of teachers in Nablus district. The study reveals a number of encouraging results such as the reading materials in the new curriculum are interesting and appealing to the new generation and the reading component is relevant to the students' cultural background. It also revealed a big number of findings that need to be seriously looked into in the process of future evaluation and amendments of the curriculum. Finally, based on these results, a number of recommendations are provided.

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