Postgraduate CUR-EDML503-2018

Language Teaching Degree Design and Assessment

Examine contemporary approaches to syllabus design and evaluation. Reflect on your personal practice, and integrate your knowledge of curricula in planning, teaching, materials, evaluating courses and assessing language ability

Duration

13 weeks

Student rating

N/A

Study method

100% online

Available loans

FEE-HELP

Assessments

100% online

Prior study

Not required

Study terms

26 May 2019

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Subject details

What you'll learn

At the completion of this subject students will be able to:

reflect on personal practices and examine contemporary approaches to syllabus design and evaluation in language teaching
integrate knowledge of curricula in planning, teaching and evaluating degrees and materials, and assessing language ability
analyse and interpret degrees, materials and test items
evaluate and adapt learning materials and evaluation procedures so as to be educationally, culturally and socially appropriate.

Topics covered

- Syllabus and Course Design Overview
- Assessment Overview: Terminology and contemporary approaches
- Product and Process syllabus types
- Approaches to materials design in a digital age
- Impact and backwash in assessment
- Defining course objectives and selecting and grading content
- Needs analysis in course design
- Validity and Reliability
- Practicality, Authenticity and Interactiveness in assessment
- Preparing learners for external tests
- Emerging and diverging approaches to assessment
- Unit Review
Study resources
- Instructional methods
  - Audio/Video conferencing
  - Discussion forum/Discussion Board
  - Embedded Multimedia
  - Online Quizzes/Tests
  - Online assignment submission
  - Podcasting/Lecture capture
  - Standard Media
  - Streaming Multimedia
  - Web links
- Online materials
  - FAQs
  - Audio-Video streaming

Entry requirements

In order to enrol in this subject, you must be accepted into one of the following degrees:

Core

CUR-MED-MAS-2018

Elective

OUA-PSU-GCE-2018
UNE-PRO-GCE-2018

Special requirements

EquipmentDetails - Audio/Visual equipment

Description

This subject enables students to reflect on personal practice in the light of emerging and diverging approaches to syllabus design and evaluation in language teaching.

Please Note: If it’s your first time studying a Curtin University subject you’ll need to complete their compulsory ‘Academic Integrity Program’. It only takes two hours to complete online, and provides you with vital information about studying with Curtin University. The Academic Integrity Program is compulsory, so if it’s not completed your subject grades will be withheld.

Find out more about the Academic Integrity module.

Assessments

Exercise (40%)
Report (60%)

Textbooks

Current study term (26 May 19 to 25 Aug 19)

Click on the titles of the listed books below to find out more:

Task-Based Language Teaching: A Reader

Branden, Bygate, Norris

Required

Related degrees

postgraduate CUR-MED-MAS-2018

Master of Education

postgraduate OUA-PSU-GCE-2018

Postgraduate Single Subjects

postgraduate UNE-PRO-GCE-2018

Graduate Certificate in Professional Practice