• Curriculum development is an essentially practical activity to improve

the quality of language teaching through the use of systematic

planning, development, and review practices in all aspects of a
language program.
• The process of curriculum development covers determining learners’
needs, developing aims or objectives to address the needs,
determining an appropriate syllabus, course structure, teaching
methods, and materials, and carrying out an evaluation of the
language program that results from these activities.
(CECILIA L. CALUB, PH.D)
“The aims of curriculum are to make a course that
has useful goals, that achieves its goals, that satisfies
its users, and that does all in this an efficient way”
Nation & John Macalister
 Curriculum
evaluation and Policy dialogue and
student formulation
assessment

Curriculum
Processes of Curriculum design
curriculum
implementation
change

Development of System
Capacity text books and management and
building for teaching learning governance
curriculum materials
implementation
• Types: Needs, lacks,
wants
• Means: Test, observe, • Clear, Measurable,
interview Achievable

Need Analysis

Goals

• Class: Time, size, hardware

The environment Following
• Student: Age, proficiency, Principles
need
• Teacher: Experience,
materials
• Connect research and
practice
Use frequency list
• Vocabulary- general and specific
• Verb forms and groups
• Function
• Sub-skills (reading, writing, listening, speaking)

Format and presenting materials

• Format needs to be accessible, comfortable and help learning
• The presentation involves the use of suitable teaching techniques and
procedures, and these need to be put together in lessons
 • Self check
Monitoring • Observation
• Peer review

• Paper presentation
Assessment • Achievement test
• Proficiency test
To answer the question “Is this a good
course?”

To bring about improvements in the

course

Responsible curriculum design includes

ongoing evaluation of the course
There is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success,
not more dangerous to manage than the creation of new system.
For the initiator has the enmity of all who would profit by the
presentation of the old system and merely lukewarm defenders
in those who would gain from the new one.

(Marchiavelli(1513) The Prince)