Elements of the language curriculum design process

There are diverse media about students' needs such as:

Tests

Questions.

Interviews.

The ways to evaluate the analysis needs are:

Reliability

Validity

Practicality.

Needs and desires are a list of elements that act as learning objectives in the course.

Effective learning it is necessary that students have the purpose of learning English.

The goal in curriculum design is essential to decide why a course is taught and what students need to learn

The objective of communicative teaching is to encourage students to exploit all the elements of language.

Trio aims to

1.encourage students to communicate.

2.sustain interest and motivation.

3.help students understand and formulate the grammatical rules of English.

4. develop students ’receptive skills.

5.give students insights into daily.

6.develop specific skills.

7.contribute to the students ’personal, social and educational development.

Passages extends students’ developing their ability to:

• Topics they can discuss and comprehend in English

• speak English fluently

• speak English accurately

Students develop speaking and listening skills to participate in classroom discussions.

As objectives it is important to determine the content of the course, to decide the approach in the presentation and to guide the evaluation.

Research on language teaching and learning should be used to guide decisions about curriculum design.

The teacher has to take into account the differences and learning habits, and above all the attitudes and motivation of the student.

It is very important that curriculum design make the connection between research and language learning theory and design practice.

Curriculum design is a part of applied linguistics; therefore, it is based on the knowledge available to guide it.

Course material should be presented to students in a way that helps them learn.

The use of teaching techniques and procedures are appropriate, in lessons.

There are several advantages of having a format for lessons such as:

Planning them separately.

Monitor students.

Learning procedures

sequence of the amount of time spent on fluency work.

The analysis of the environment is to work from a list of questions.

The objective of the teacher is interesting and motivating to guide the design of the course, the format and the presentation.

The elements of language and skills are focused on the type of learning activity.

The course book has to relate to the exam to be taken.

Evaluation is a useful source of data.

The evaluation tries to answer the questions

An evaluation of a course can have many purposes.

Curriculum design includes ongoing evaluation of the course.

Language courses consists of the language items, ideas, skills and strategies.

it is important for the curriculum designer to keep some check on vocabulary, grammar and discourse

A systematic basis for a course needs linguistic elements or skills.

A list can be used to verify or determine the content.

the lessons have to consist of item by item teaching

An important part of the design process is to evaluate and achieve objectives.

Evaluation involves the use of tests.

Proficiency tests can be used to measure the level of knowledge of a student's language

Performance tests are tests that occur at the end of each lesson.

Well designed courses must include performance tests.