Week 5
Needs / Environment Analysis
How we can gather the information about our learners and the situation of learning.
Home assignment
Read the chapter about the main principles of language syllabus design.
  • What impact/s might each principle have on language courses?
  • Illustrate each of 20 principles with your own examples.

E.g.
Deliberate language learning
=> we need to draw learners' attention to structures, vocabulary, pronunciation depending on the learning outcomes => Example: teaching pronunciation explicitly (sentence stress, linking sounds, etc) OR teaching vocabulary and word formation (so vs such, look & different particles, etc).

We will discuss these examples in class.

After doing the first part of the exercise, answer the questions here (due date November 10):