Language Teaching Degree Design and Assessment
PostgraduateCUR-EDML5032018
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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
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- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- 13 weeks
- Loan available
- FEE-HELP available
Language Teaching Degree Design and Assessment
About this subject
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.
- 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
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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- Exercise (40%)
- Report (60%)
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Entry requirements
To enrol in this subject, you must be admitted into a degree.
Additional requirements
- Equipment requirements - Audio/Visual equipment
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
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