Designing and Improving a Language Course  

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Nation, Paul

Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine
Dalam koleksi: English Teaching Forum (http://exchanges.state.gov/englishteaching/forum/archives.html) vol. 38 no. 4 (Apr. 2000), page 1-14.
Topik: Language Course; Curriculum Design Process
Fulltext: Designing and Improving a Language Course.pdf (350.15KB)

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This article describes a systematic approach to designing and improving courses based on a model of course design. The strength of systematically following a model is that the important things are not overlooked. There are many possible starting points for curriculum design. For example: 1. Curriculum design can begin with the adaptation of an existing course, gradually reshaping it to become quite different from what it was. This allows the course to be taught while curriculum design is going on. 2. Curriculum design can begin from an unorganized set of resources that are used, supplemented, adapted, or discarded as the design progresses. These resources can include course books, source books (Prabhu 1989), teacher-made materials, and material from newspapers or magazines. 3. Curriculum design can begin from nothing except an idea in the mind of the designer. Parts of the Curriculum Design Process Course design can be seen as a kind of writing activity and as such it can usefully be studied as a process. The typical subprocesses of the writing process (gathering ideas, ordering ideas, converting ideas to text, reviewing, editing) can be applied to course design, but it makes it easier to draw on current course design theory and practice if a different set of parts is used.

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