SLTC Lecture 1 (2023)

Second Language Teaching Curriculum (SLTC)Dr. Dario Luis Banegas (course organiser)

Week 1Deffining the curriculum

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Ask your peer

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MSc TESOL

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Graves (2008)

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And more

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Back to our programme

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Richards (2013)

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Graves (2016)

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Key terms

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Deffining the curriculum

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Dimensions

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Processes

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Types

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Waves

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Fallacy 1

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Fallacy 2

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Complete the Extension section of Week 1 BEFORE the first workshop next week.

Graves, K. (2008). The language curriculum: A social contextual perspective. Language Teaching, 41(2), 147–181. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0261444807004867 Graves, K. (2016). Language curriculum design: Possibilities and realities. In G. Hall (Ed.), The Routledge handbook of English language teaching (pp. 79–93). Routledge. Graves, K. (2023). Mind the gap: A tale of two curriculum fallacies. Language Teaching, 56(2), 197-209. doi:10.1017/S0261444821000148Richards, J. C. (2013). Curriculum approaches in language teaching: Forward, central, and backward design. RELC Journal, 44(1), 5–33. https://doi.org/10.1177/0033688212473293

References

...a curriculum is the dynamic interplay of three interconnected processes: planning, enacting and evaluating. In this view, a curriculum is not just a design for learning, it is also the learning itself; it is both the plan and the enactment. The enacted curriculum is what happens in the classroom among learners and teacher...(Graves, 2016, p. 80)

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In your undergrad programme:

• Was the programme online, face-to-face, or hybrid?
• How many courses did you take?
• Could you take them in any order?

• Did you have written exams? When?

Ask your peer

A curriculum is the processes and products of planning, teaching and evaluating a course of study or related courses. (Graves, 2008)

The term curriculum is used here to refer to the overall plan or design for a course and how the content for a course is transformed into a blueprint for teaching and learning which enables the desired learning outcomes to be achieved. . . Once content has been selected t then needs to be organized into teachable and learnable units as well as arranged in rational sequence. The result is a syllabus.(Richards, 2013, p. 6)

A PROGRAMME is all of the courses or courses of study offered in a particular institution or department.A COURSE is a teaching/learning experience that occurs over a specific period of time with a specific focus. The term course is more appropriate in adult, tertiary and secondary education, where levels, year in school or courses of study are divided that way. It is not a good fit with primary education because of its holistic nature.A SYLLABUS is a plan for what is to be learned in a particular course or course of study.

What is taught?For what purpose?For whom?Who teaches?Where? When?How is it taught?

Key questions

• Explorations
• Definitions
• Dimensions
• Parts
• Processes
• "Waves"

Topics

Types of curriculum (Graves, 2016)

• Intended

• Enacted
• Assessed

• Learnt
• Hidden