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

•What in the language you stress most
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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
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Learning and Learners
•How people learn
•Inductive vs. Deductive way
•Different intelligences
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•Teacher-centred
•Student-centred
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•What would your starting motivating lesson look like?
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•Which would be the most interesting activity from the lesson ?
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HW
•Describe your group
•Think about a starting motivating lesson for the group you have chosen •Demonstrate the most
interesting activity from the lesson
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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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