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Introduction |
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1 The nature of curriculum |
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1.1 Internal and external influences on curriculum |
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1.2 The nature of curriculum |
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1.3 Curriculum and the teacher |
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1.4 Curriculum as product and process |
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Appendix 1 Extract from a state curriculum (Hong Kong Government 2004, 4-6) |
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Appendix 2 The Austrian education system |
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Appendix 3 Extract from an institutional curriculum (Lone Star College System 2013--2014, 6--7) |
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Appendix 4 Extract from a general curriculum (Council of Europe 2001) |
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Appendix 5 Extract from a teacher's curriculum |
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Case study 1 Developing a course in creative non-fiction Dino Mahoney |
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Case study 2 An institutional curriculum for a pre-service English teacher-education program Christian Rudianto |
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2 Syllabus design: a brief history |
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2.1 The nature of syllabus design |
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2.2 Selection and gradation |
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Appendix 1 The most frequent content words in the British National Corpus (from Kennedy 1998) |
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Appendix 2 Headwords of the Academic Word List (Coxhead 2011) |
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Appendix 3 Part of an early English grammatical syllabus (from Hornby 1959) |
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Case study 3 A Course in English for Baristas Kyle Smith |
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3 New directions in syllabus and curriculum design |
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3.1 The quest for new methods |
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3.2 Changing needs for foreign languages in Europe |
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3.3 Communicative Language Teaching |
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3.4 The search for new syllabus models |
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3.5 English for Specific Purposes |
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3.6 Needs analysis in ESP |
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3.7 Emergence of a curriculum approach in language teaching |
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68 | (1) |
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Appendix 1 Threshold level syllabus (from Van Ek and Trim 1998) |
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Case study 4 An ESP course for international students Sasha Wajnryb |
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Case study 5 Language learning and technology Christoph A Hafner |
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4.2 Course design for learners who may have no specific need |
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4.3 Larger-scale needs analysis |
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4.4 The goals of needs analysis |
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4.5 The users of needs analysis |
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4.6 The target population |
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4.7 Procedures for conducting large-scale needs analysis |
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4.8 Making use of the information obtained |
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4.9 Applying the findings of needs analysis |
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Appendix 1 Questionnaire to determine learners' subjective needs |
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Appendix 2 Needs analysis questionnaire for non-English-background students (from Gravatt, Richards, and Lewis 1997) |
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Appendix 3 Needs assessment questionnaire for use in designing a course for adults at beginner level (from TAS 2011, Appendix K, pp. 81--82) |
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Case study 6 Planning a course in technical communication Lindsay Miller |
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Case study 7 Developing a foundation course for college students Rob Haines |
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5 Context and the curriculum |
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5.1 The sociocultural environment |
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114 | (3) |
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5.7 Profiling the factors identified in the situation analysis |
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Appendix 1 Situation analysis profile |
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Appendix 2 Matrix for identifying factors in curriculum renewal process (from Rodgers 1984) |
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Case study 8 Effective classroom management for in-service teachers Husai Ching |
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Case study 9 A Blended Undergraduate Course in Ecuador Jose Lema |
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6 Curriculum aims and outcomes |
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140 | (20) |
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6.1 Goal setting in backward design |
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6.2 Aims, objectives, learning outcomes, competencies |
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149 | (3) |
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155 | (1) |
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Case study 10 Developing a course on discussion skills Michael Griffin |
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7.1 Determining the level of the course |
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7.2 Choosing a syllabus framework |
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7.3 Content-based syllabus and CLIL |
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7.4 Competency-based syllabuses |
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169 | (4) |
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Appendix 1 The ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines 2012 -- For Speaking |
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Appendix 2 Description of performance levels; writing (adapted by Paltridge from the IELTS test [ Paltridge 1992]) |
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186 | (2) |
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Appendix 3 Some common text types |
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Appendix 4 Designing a course from texts (from Burns and Joyce 1997) |
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189 | (2) |
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Case study 11 Developing a content-based course Lindsay Miller |
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191 | (4) |
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Case study 12 A CLIL Course: The Thinking Lab Science Rosa Bergada |
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Case study 13 A Pre-University Course for International Students in Australia Phil Chappell |
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8.6 Determining the scope and sequence |
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8.7 Developing Instructional segments |
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Appendix 1 Skills syllabus for listening and speaking From Malaysian Secondary School Syllabus form IV (1989) |
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Appendix 2 Curriculum for a listening class - Curriculum design: Low-Intermediate Adult ESL Listening Class by Rebecca Nicholson |
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218 | (1) |
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Appendix 3 Grammar items and their sequence in a first-year English course (from Richards and Bohlke 2012) |
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Case study 14 A Course For First-Year University Students Phil Wade |
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221 | (3) |
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Case study 15 A General English Course For International Students Frank S. Rogers |
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224 | (3) |
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227 | (17) |
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9.1 An alternative understanding of curriculum |
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9.2 What teachers bring to teaching |
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9.3 How teachers think about lesson purposes |
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9.4 What happens during lessons |
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Appendix 1 Example of exploratory practice (EP) (Edwards 2005) |
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Case study 16 Thinking through English Alan S. Mackenzie |
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10 Textbooks, technology, and the curriculum |
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10.1 Textbooks as teaching resource |
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10.2 Criticism of textbooks |
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10.3 Authentic versus created materials |
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10.4 Evaluating textbooks |
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10.6 Monitoring the use of materials |
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10.7 Technology as a teaching and learning resource |
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10.8 Support provided by technology |
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10.9 Examples of the use of technology in teaching the four skills |
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10.10 Determining the role of technology In the curriculum |
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262 | (1) |
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Appendix 1 ESL reading textbook evaluation checklist (from Miekley 2005) |
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Appendix 2 Evaluating technology |
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Case study 17 Using textbooks in a large-scale language program Eric Anthony Tejeda Evans |
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Case study 18 Using the resources of technology in a college English program Hiroyuki Obari |
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11 Approaches to evaluation |
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11.1 The focus of evaluation |
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11.2 Audience for evaluation |
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11.3 Quantitative and qualitative approaches |
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11.4 Product-focused evaluation |
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11.5 Formative and summative evaluation |
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11.6 The importance of documentation |
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11.7 Evaluating the evaluation |
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11.8 Procedures used In conducting evaluations |
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11.9 Process-focused evaluation: descriptive and reflective evaluation |
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11.10 Implementing reflective evaluation |
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Appendix 1 Best practice in English language teaching |
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Case study 19 Evaluating an in-service program for English language teachers Geoffrey Crewes |
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Case study 20 Evaluating the content of an EAP program Jonathan Newton |
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Case study 21 Evaluating an English course for tertiary-level learners David Crabbe |
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References |
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Index |
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