LCE 515 SECOND LANGUAGE CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT AND EVALUATION (7 ECTS)
This course aims to provide students with background knowledge in curriculum and syllabus design, development and evaluation, in order to be able to autonomously design, develop and evaluate their curricula and also conduct research in this field. The course considers a number of current approaches to language syllabus design in second and foreign language teaching contexts. These include functional-notional, communicative, content-based, task-based, genre-based, and competency based syllabi. The course draws from SLA, Language Teaching Methodologies, CALL and L2 Assessment and Evaluation. It gives the opportunity to students to put everything they have learned in the earlier courses into curriculum development. They will plan, design and develop a thematic unit drawn from their current practice context. This will include learning and assessment tasks in all language skills. This will entail the use of CALL. Students will trial and evaluate their unit and draw conclusions. This course also links with course 8, which deals with personal teaching experience in ESL at tertiary level and online teaching and learning.