Postgraduate CUR-EDML503-2019

Language Teaching Course 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

2019

Student rating

N/A

Study method

100% online

Available loans

FEE-HELP

Assessments

100% online

Prior study

Not required

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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 in relationship to contemporary theory and practice in designing courses of second language instruction
integrate knowledge of learner needs, instructional goals and objectives, syllabus design, materials writing and test development
analyse and interpret example of course material and language assessment tests
evaluate adapt learning materials and tests to be educationally, culturally and socially appropriate in specific contexts.

Topics covered

- Language Course Design: Key Components
- Contemporary Options in Language Course Design: An Historical Perspective
- Tasks in Language Teaching and Learning: Psycholinguistics, the Learner, and the Social Context
- Input-Based Tasks
- Interactive Tasks
- Output-Based Tasks
- Syllabus Design
- Lesson Planning and Implementational Options
- Assessing Performance
- Evaluating Language Instruction
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-2019

Elective

OUA-PSU-GCE-2019
UNE-PRO-GCE-2019

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.

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Assessments

Exercise (40%)
Report (60%)

Textbooks

Related degrees

postgraduate CUR-MED-MAS-2019

Master of Education

postgraduate OUA-PSU-GCE-2019

Postgraduate Single Subjects

postgraduate UNE-PRO-GCE-2019

Graduate Certificate in Professional Practice