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SCA general
SCA is not about achieving set of goals
It lets the learners achieve what they can with own experience
and time constraint
It is a (continuum process) which means there is no cut of point of
success and failure
Learner will simultaneously learn and develop degree of
proficiency.
SCA: conclusion
Take more of learners into account than LCA
Still take the learner as the user of language instead of a learner
Still concern with the process of language use not of language
learning
Select theoretical
views of language
Identify learners
target situation
Create Syllabus
Design materials to
exemplify syllabus items
Establish evaluation procedures tp
test acquisition of syllabus items
Identify
Target
situation
Analyse skills/
strategies required
to cope in target
situation
Theoretical views
of learning
Write
Syllabus
Establish
evaluation
procedures
which
require the
use
skills/strate
gies in
syllabus
A learning-centered approach
Identify target situation
A Language-centered approach
considers the learner to here
A skilled-centered approach
considers the learner to here
Write Syllabus
Write Materials
Teach Materials
A Learning-centered approach
Must consider the learner at
every stage
Intensive or extensive
Assessed or non-assessed
Immediate or delayed needs
Provider or facilitator of activities
Broad or narrow focus
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Case study 1:
Residential intensive non-assessed EOP
Course GEC Management College,
Dunchurch
Case study 2:
An extensive, repeated assessed EAP
course for students at the Jordanian
University of science and technology
(JUST), Irbid, Jordan
Case study 3
Extensive EAP specific course for
students studying international banking
and finance at MBA level, University of
Birmingham (non-assessed)
Case study 4:
An intensive one-off EOP course for
research scientists, India
Module 19
Course Design
Whats Inside
1.
2.
3.
4.
Case study 1:
Residential intensive non-assessed EOP
Course GEC Management College,
Dunchurch
Case study 2:
An extensive, repeated assessed EAP
course for students at the Jordanian
University of science and technology
(JUST), Irbid, Jordan
Case study 3
Extensive EAP specific course for
students studying international banking
and finance at MBA level, University of
Birmingham (non-assessed)
Case study 4:
An intensive one-off EOP course for
research scientists, India