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Language Teaching Course Design and Assessment
Postgraduate | CUR-EDML503 | 2020
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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
- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- 13 weeks
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Language Teaching Course Design and Assessment
About this subject
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.
- 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
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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