Materials Design and Assessment

• • Materials design overview
  • Assessment overview: Terminology and contemporary approaches
  • Product and Process aspects of materials provision
  • Approaches to materials design in a digital age
  • Impact and backwash in assessment
  • Needs analysis in materials design
  • Relating classroom materials to lesson objectives
  • Validity and Reliability
  • Practicality, Authenticity and Interactiveness in assessment
  • Preparing learners for external tests
  • Emerging and diverging approaches to assessment

• Study resources

  • Instructional methods

    • Web links
    • Embedded Multimedia
    • Audio/Video conferencing
    • Online assignment submission
    • Discussion forum/Discussion Board

  • Online materials

    • Printable format materials
    • Audio-Video streaming

You won't be able to enrol into this subject if you've already successfully completed or currently enrolled in the following subject(s) as they are considered anti-requisites due to the similarity of the content.

• CUR-TESOL505-Planning, Execution and Evaluation of TESOL

Special requirements

No special requirements

This subject enables students to reflect on personal practice in the light of approaches to materials design in a digital age and emerging and diverging approaches to evaluation in TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages).

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• Materials development (50%)
• Evaluation (50%)