Conceptualizing The Course
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The document discusses the conceptualization of language courses, focusing on content selection, rationale, and the intricacies of curriculum design such as drafting and revising. It highlights various aspects of course content including vocabulary, grammar, and socio-cultural contexts while emphasizing learner-related goals and strategies. The document also includes tasks for comparison and analysis of different conceptualization methods and encourages individual reflection on course design.
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- 2. Can you seethe hidden tiger?
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- 4. Conceptualizing Content A matterof articulating what you will explicitly teach (focus) and having a rationale (why) for making those choices.
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- 7. The Difficult Process MakingChoices -- What goes in? What doesn’t? Drafting -- What order? When, Where, How? Revising -- What worked?, what didn’t?
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- 9. Task 4.2 What isthe “content” of a course? Vocabulary Grammar Materials Genres Themes Functions Assessment Skills Activities Textbook
- 10. Broad areas ofconceptualization
- 11. Task 4.1 –Mind Mapping
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- 13. Learner related Content AffectiveGoals: attitude toward self, others and the target culture/language. ie. Building confidence, motivation Interpersonal Skills: relationship towards others for the purpose of learning. ie. Roles / turn taking Learning Strategies: practicing ways to learn better. Ie. Self monitoring / pneumonics
- 14. Social Context relatedContent 1. Socio-linguistic: paralinguistic ability, register 2. Socio-cultural: identity, values, norms, customs 3. Socio-political: life skills, critical language awareness
- 15. Task 4.3 a/bCompare / Reflect Compare how 2 textbook authors conceptualized content. Describe how a language course you attended/taught was conceptualized.
- 16. Task 4.4 What areaswe discussed (fig. 4.4) were included on Iris Broudy’s mind map?
- 17. Task 4.5 -Analyze
- 18. Task 4.6 -Analyze II
- 19. What do youthink?
- 20. Task 4.7 -You Conceptualize!
- 21. Task 4.8 Don’t dothis!
- 22. Task 4.9 -Compare Mind Map Vs Grid What are the advantages and disadvantages of these ways of conceptualizing the content.
- 23. Task 4.10 -Your opinion Chris’ flow charts What do you like / don’t like about his approach and design?