Language Curriculum Design

Crystal-clear and comprehensive yet concise, this text describes the steps involved in the curriculum design process, elaborates and justifies these steps, and provides opportunities for practicing and applying them. The description of the steps is done at a general level so that they can be applied in a wide range of particular circumstances. The process comes to life through plentiful examples of actual applications of the steps. Each chapter includes: examples from the authors' experience and from published research tasks that encourage readers to relate the steps to their own experience case studies and suggestions for further reading that put readers in touch with others' experience. Curriculum, or course, design is largely a 'how-to-do-it' activity that involves the integration of knowledge from many of the areas in the field of Applied Linguistics, such as language acquisition research, teaching methodology, assessment, language description, and materials production. Combining sound research/theory with state-of-the-art practice, Language Curriculum Design is widely applicable for ESL/EFL language education courses around the world.

ISBN 0415806062   Volumes 1 ISBN13 9780415806060 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 330 Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd   Published in London Imprint Routledge   Series title ESL and Applied Linguistics Professional Series Format Paperback   Height (mm) 229 Publication date 17 Sep 2009   Width (mm) 152 Library of Congress 2009010312   Spine width (mm) 15 DEWEY 428.0071   Academic level Postgraduate DEWEY edition DC22   Alternative ISBN 9786612283895 Pages 240

		Preface
Ch. 1		Language Curriculum Design: An Overview
Ch. 2		Environment Analysis
Ch. 3		Needs Analysis
Ch. 4		Principles
Ch. 5		Goals Content and Sequencing
Ch. 6		Format and Presentation
Ch. 7		Monitoring and Assessment
Ch. 8		Evaluation
Ch. 9		Approaches to Curriculum Design
Ch. 10		Negotiated Syllabuses
Ch. 11		Adopting and Adapting an Existing Course Book
Ch. 12		Introducing Change
Ch. 13		Planning an In-Service Course
Ch. 14		Teaching and Curriculum Design
		Appendices
1		A verb form frequency count
		References
		Index

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