Crystal-clear and comprehensive yet concise, this text describes the steps
involved in the curriculum design process, elaborates and justifies these steps
and provides opportunities for practising and applying them. The description of the steps is done at a general level so that they can be applied in a wide range of particular circumstances.
The process comes to life through plentiful
examples of actual applications of the steps. Each chapter includes:
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Descriptions of examples from the authors’ experience and from published research
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Tasks that encourage readers to relate the steps to their own experience
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Case studies and suggestions for further reading that put readers in touch
with others’ experience
Curriculum, or course, design is largely a “how-to-do-it” activity that
involves the integration of knowledge from many of the areas in the field of
Applied Linguistics, such as language acquisition research, teaching methodology, assessment, language description and materials production. Combining sound research/theory with state-of-the-art practice, Language Curriculum
Design is widely applicable for ESL/EFL language education courses around
the world.
I.S.P. Nation is Professor in Applied Linguistics at Victoria University of
Wellington, New Zealand. In addition to books, his extensive list of publications on teaching and learning vocabulary, language teaching methodology,
and curriculum design, includes journal articles, book chapters and book
reviews. He has taught in Indonesia, Thailand, the United States, Finland and
Japan.
John Macalister is Senior Lecturer at Victoria University of Wellington,
New Zealand. He specialises in the fields of language teaching methodology
and curriculum design and draws on experience in teacher education and
curriculum design in Thailand, Cambodia, Kiribati, Vanuatu and Namibia.
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