English Curriculum 2020
For Junior High School

Table of Contents

Introduction

Alignment with the
CEFR

Curriculum Components

Interdependent dimensions

Language activities

Reception

Oral reception

Written reception

Production

Oral production

Written production

Interaction

Production

Reception

Mediation

Reception

Production

Interaction

Communicative Competences

Linguistic competence

General
linguistic range

Vocabulary size and depth

Grammatical accuracy

Phonological and
orthographic control

Sociolinguistic competence

Pragmatics

Can-do Statements

Global can-do statements

Operative can-do statements

Domains

Educational domain

Occupational domain

Public domain

Personal domain

Vocabulary

Words and chuncks

Bands

Grammar

Lists of structures

Principles to Guide Teaching Practice

A. Principles underlying language learning and language teaching

Table 1

B. Principles underlying beginning language learning and teaching

Table 2

C. Principles underlying the selection of materials

D. Principles underlying the design of tasks

E. Principles underlying classroom assessment

F. Principles underlying the integration of ICT

Levels of Progression

Table 3

English Curriculum 2020

CEFR Global Scale

Revised English Curriculum 2018

Sources for Can-do Statements and Format of Presentation

Sources

The CEFR

The GSE

The AUS

The GEPF

Format of the presentation

Figure 1

Activity

Global
can-do
statement

Operative
can-do
statement

Source

Vocabulary

The Lexical Bands

Table 4

Level

Lexical Band

Grade Level

Table 5

Level

Pre-basic
User (Pre
A1)

Basic User I
(A1)

Basic User II
(A2)

Independent
User I (B1)

Independent
User II (B2)

Grammar

Grammatical constructions

Structure or
form

Meaning

Use in terms of pragmatic appropriacy

Description of the grammar component

Grammar development

Mostly receptive

Emerging production

Evolving usage and accuracy

Format of the grammar component

Figure 2

Structure

Global can-do
statement

Operative
can-do
statement

Source

Examples

Basic User II (A2)

Activities

Reception

Spoken reception

Written reception

Production

Spoken production

Written production

Interaction

Spoken interaction

Written interaction

Mediation

Communicative Competences

Linguistic

Phonological control

Orthographic control

Sociolinguistic

Pragmatic

Spoken fluency

Plurilingual and pluricultural competence

Grammar

Table 6

7th Grade

8th Grade

9th Grade

Can-do descriptors

Clauses

Verb forms

Noun Forms

Adjective / adverb forms

Global Can-do Statements

Basic User II- A2 (Intermediate)

Reception

Spoken reception

Written reception

Production

Spoken production

Written production

Interaction

Spoken interaction

Written interaction

Mediation

References

List of Tables

Table 1

Table 2

Table 3

Table 4

Table 5

Table 6

List of Figures

Figure 1

Figure 2