Curriculum Design: Fundamental Considerations

What does the inner circle in the curriculum design model represent?

• Principles

• Environment

• Needs

• Syllabus

What is the importance of considering the environment in curriculum design?

• It helps in setting clear goals.

• It determines the content of the syllabus.

• It ensures a balanced knowledge of the language.

• It takes into account factors affecting the course's use.

In Hutchinson and Waters' framework, what do "Lacks" refer to?

• The perceived needs of learners

• The essential knowledge and skills
  

• What learners already know and what they do not know yet

• The goals set for language courses

Why is research important in language curriculum design?

• To follow accepted principles of curriculum design

• To accommodate individual differences

• To determine course content

• To benefit from research insights

How many steps in environment analysis?

• 3

• 4

• 5

• 6

Environment analysis is an important part of curriculum design because at its most basic level it ensures that the course will be ________.

• usable

• effective

• unusable

• suitable

The factors that could affect curriculum design can arise from ________.

• the teachers, the learners and their family.

• family, the teachers, and the teaching and learning situation.

• the learners, the teachers, and the teaching and learning situation.

• the teachers, the learners and their friends.

Environment analysis (Tessmer, 1990) involves looking at the factors that will have a strong effect on decisions about ________.

• the goals of the course

• what to include in the course

• how to teach and assess it

• All are correct

1. How many focuses on needs analysis?

• 2

• 3

• 4

• 5

What are the issues when discovering needs?

• necessities

• lacks

• wants

• All are correct