APPROACHES TO LANGUAGE CURRICULUM

DEVELOPMENT
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Curriculum
Definitions
1

Components
2

Approaches to Language
3 Curriculum
Definitions
Terms related to curriculum
 Terms Related to Curriculum
Curriculum
The overall plan or design for a course and how the
content for a course is transformed into a blueprint for
teaching and learning which enables the desired learning
outcomes to be achieved. (Richard, 2013)

Curriculum Development
The step-by-step process used to create positive
improvements in the courses (Stutt, 2018)
 Terms Related to Curriculum

Syllabus

Selected and organized contents or material

which is teachable and learnable unit as well
as arranged in a rational sequence (Richard,
2013).
Curriculum Components
 Curriculum Contents
Stages in Curriculum Process

First Second Third Fourth Fifth

NEED GOAL SELECTING TEACHING ASSESSMENT

ANALYSIS SETTING CONTENT METHOD
Approaches to
Language Curriculum
 Approaches

Time Dimension
Forward-Central-Backward
Design Jack Richard (2013)

CLT- Genre Based Kathleen Graves & Sue

Pedagogy - CLIL Garton (2017).
 Forward, Center, Backward Approaches
Jack Richard, 2013

TRADITIONAL 1980s and 90s

Starting from Begin with classroom
content end up
with assessment 01 02 process and
methodology

Departing from learning

outcome to syllabus
03
design
20 Century
 Dimension of Curriculum
INPUT
Linguistics content of the
course

PROCESS
How to teaching is conducted
(Teaching Methodology)

OUTPUT
Learning Outcome (What
learner able to do)
 Design Process

The Central Design Process

The Backward Design Process
Example of Forward Lesson Plan
Wiggins and McTighe (2006:15)
 Two Examples of Forward Design Appro
aches in Language Teaching

Communicative Language Teaching (CLT)

A model for specifying the syllabus content of a
course based on learners’ communicative needs.
A model for specifying the syllabus content of a course
based on learners’ communicative needs
 Content and Language Integrated Learning
(CLIL)
The use of a syllabus that integrates both language
and subject matter (e.g. science, geography, history,
environmental studies).
Central Design Example
Krashen and Terrel’s Natural Approach
Communicative classroom processes engaging the learners in
meaningful interaction and communication and at an appropriate
level of difficulty.

Task-based Language Teaching TBLT (Version 1)

The use of ‘tasks ‘ as the mechanism that best activates language learning
processes
The Ecological Classroom by Van Lier

Learning is not a system of “inputs” which individual learners

convert into “output”

The environment provides affordances or opportunities for

meaningful action
 Backward Design Examples
Task-based Language Teaching (Version 2)
Competency-based Instruction (CpBI)
A specification of the learning outcomes in terms
of ‘competencies’
Standards and the Common European
Framework of Reference.
The use of standards (also known as benchmarks, core
skills, performance profiles and target competency.

Standards are descriptions of the outcomes or targets students

should be able to reach in different domains of curriculum
content,
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The Best Approach

‘Which approach
is best?’

There is no best approach to curriculum design, and

that forward design, central design and backward
design might each work well but in different
circumstances.