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TASK 2

Essay Questions

1. What is the definition of curriculum?

 According to Richards (2013 p, 363), curriculum refers to the overall plan or design for a
course and how the content of this course is transformed into a blueprint for teaching and
learning, which enables the desired learning outcomes to be achieved. Then according to
Wiggings and Mc Tighe (2006), curriculum takes content and shapes it into a plan for
how to conduct effective teaching and learning. So it can be concluded that a curriculum
is a plan that is designed for selecting, presenting,vand teaching the content of a course in
order to achieve some predetermined outcomes or objectives.

2. What does curriculum development consist of?

 Curriculum development consists of setting the learning objectives selecting the contents
to be taught, designing a method of implementation, and deciding on the procedures
which should be followed in order to evaluate the effectiveness of the curriculum.

3. What are the stages of curriculum development?

 Curriculum development tasks consist of needs analysis, goal setting, syllabus design,
methodology, and evaluation.

4. Describe the three main functions of the needs analysis process!

 It provides a description of the language needs in real-world situations, it offers a

description of the types of tasks and activities in which learners need to engage so that
they could function well in different contexts and situations, and gives a description of
the language skills behaviors attitudes and motivations which language learners must
possess in order to become successful language learners.

5. Richards identifies two main categories of syllabus, namely...

 The linguistic syllabus and the procedural syllabus.

Multiple-choice Questions

1. Below are experts who put forward the definition of the curriculum in the video, except...
 a. Richards
b. Charles
c. Wiggings
d. Mc Tighe

2. Below are the syllabus categories proposed by Richards...

a. The structural syllabus

b. The linguistic syllabus and the procedural syllabus
c. The skill-based syllabus
d. The content-based syllabus

3. Below are stages of curriculum, except...

a. Goal setting
b. Evaluation
c. Methodology
d. Conclusion

4. Process-oriented syllabus includes all of the following points, except...

a. Learning experience
b. Tasks
c. Exam
d. Activities

5. Below are five coherent curriculum development processes, namely...

a. Needs analysis, goal setting, syllabus design, methodology, evaluation

b. Syllabus design, methodology, conclusion, evaluation, goal setting
c. Methodology, goal setting, needs analysis, evaluation, conclusion
d. Needs analysis, goal setting, syllabus design, evaluation, methodology