Course design



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•Designing a language course involves …

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Designing a language course involves
•Beliefs
•Context
•Assessment plan
•Materials
•Goals and objectives
•Assessing needs
•Content
•organization

•„Teaching is an organic, unpredictable, challenging, satisfying, and frustrating process.“
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•                                Kathleen Graves: Designing language courses (2000:7)

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•„Designing a language course is a work in progress …“
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Choose a course:
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•You have taught and want to redesign
•You are planning to teach
•In which you are or have been a learner

•Think of a language lesson (observed, taught, you took part in) that you thought was an excellent
one.
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•Why was it excellent?

Beliefs about
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•Language
•Social context of language
•View of learning and learners
•View of teaching

Language
•What in the language you stress most


Social context
•Language is used in certain society
•Sociocultural issues (ways of greeting, eating, customs, products – literature, art …)
•Sociopolitical issues (how the social group is viewed by other social groups, access to language
…)

Learning and Learners
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•How people learn
•Inductive vs. Deductive way
•Different intelligences

Teaching
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•Teacher-centred
•Student-centred

HW
•Write about your beliefs
•Put it into moodlinka forum for other discussions
•Make comments in moodlinka having read other contributions
•Prepare a starting motivating lesson for the group you have chosen
•Bring it to the next seminar
•Describe your group
•Demonstrate the most interesting activity from the lesson
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