THE ORIGINS OF

LANGUAGE CURRICULUM
DEVELOPMENT

BY GROUP 1
Memebers of the group
Miftahurrahma (A12121241)

Tirta Amarilis Matoneng (A12121212)

Apriliani Olii (A12122215)
Nur Sakinah (A12122214)
Maryana (A12121237)
Triwahyu (A12121237)
Nurul Rizky Hidayah (A12121217)
The origins of language
curriculum development
Second and foreign language teaching is one of the world's largest
educational enterprises and millions of children and adults
worldwide devote large amounts of time and effort to the task of
mastering a new language.
Historical Background
The history of curriculum development in language teaching starts
with the - notion of syllabus design. Syllabus design is one aspect of
curriculum de velopment but is not identical with it. A syllabus is a
specification of the content of a course of instruction and lists what
will be taught and tested.
 Vocabulary Selection
Vocabulary is one of the most obvious components of language and
one of the first things applied linguists turned their attention to.
Some of the earliest approaches to vocabulary selection involved
counting a large collections of texts to determine the frequency with
which words oc curred, since it would seem obvious that words of
highest frequency should be taught first.
 Assumption Underlying Early
Approaches To Syllabus Design

• The basic units of language are Vocabulary and Grammar

• Learners everywhere have the same needs
• Learners needs are identified exclusively in terms of language
needs
• The process of learning a language is laergely determined by the
textbook
• The context of teaching is english as a foreign language
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