Purposes
of EFL Curriculum
Aji Budi Rinekso 1907593
Raden Hasby Isnaindy Fasa 1906565
Nabila Saniya Abkary 1906556
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Presentation Outline
Key topics for discussion
1. Defining the terms and concept of purposes of
curriculum
2. Aspects in stating the purposes of curriculum
3. The comparison of the purposes of Indonesian EFL
curriculum and other EFL curricula.
4. Pros and cons of curriculum purposes
Aims, goals
and objectives
Aims Goals
A statement of a A way of putting the
general change that main purposes and
a program seeks to intended outcomes
bring about in in the
learners course
(Richards, 2001). (Graves, 1999).
For example...
Students will study listening skills.
Students will learn English for tourism.
Students will learn how to listen effectively in
conversational interactions and how to develop
better listening strategies.
Students will be able to communicate in English
at a basic level for purposes of tourism
Goals
For example..
"Students will improve their writing"
"By the end of the course students will have
become more aware of their writing in general
and be able to identify the specific areas in
which improvement is needed"
who the their level
students are
Goals
CHOOSING
the materials time
Objectives
Students will learn how to write
effective business letters for use in the
hotel and tourism industries.
Objectives
An objective indicates a more specific
statement that results from an analysis of
the aim into its different components
(Richards, 2001).
Objectives Objectives
describe a should be consistent
learning outcome with the curriculum aim
Objectives Objectives
should be should be
precise feasible
Objectives should be consistent with
the curriculum aim
Aim:
Students will learn how to write effective
business letters for use in the hotel and tourism
industries.
Objective:
The student can understand and respond to
simple questions over the telephone.
Objectives should be precise
Objective for a conversation course:
Students will know how to use useful
conversation expressions.
A more precise objective would be:
Students will use conversation expressions for
giving opinion, agree and disagree conversations.
Objectives should be feasible
Students will be able to follow conversations
spoken by native speakers.
The following is a more feasible objective:
Students will be able to get the core of short
conversations in simple English on topics related
to daily life.
ASPECTS IN STATING THE PURPOSES OF
Graves, 2001
CURRICULUM
01 Knowledge Goals 03 Skill Goals
knowledge about language, four skills of speaking,
culture, and society. listening, reading, and writing.
02 Awarenes Goals 04 Attitude Goals
self-knowledge, understanding of howrespect, self-confidence, and
the language works, and valuing community.
understanding of others’ use of
language.
There are five aspects in the
objectives (Saphier and Gower, 1987):
Coverage Activity Involvement
Mastery Generic thinking
FORMULATING THE Brown, J.D (1995),
PURPOSE IN CURRICULUM
01 02
Examine the needs of State the needs of the
the students students
03 04
Narrow the scope of the State the smaller more
resulting goal specific goals as
statements objectives
The comparison of Indonesian EFL curriculum and other
EFL curricula
Turkey National English Language
Indonesian
Curriculum (NELC)
EFL Curriculum (2013
To engage English language
Curriculum)
learners in inspiring,
Produce pious, productive,
encouraging, and enjoyable
creative, and innovative
learning environments in order
individuals.
to support them to be
Foster learners’ language
autonomous, productive, and
competence (communicative
successful individuals who are
skills) – interpersonal,
able to effectively, fluently, and
transactional, and functional
accurately communicate in
both spoken and written.
English.
Greece EFL Curriculum – The Chinese EFL Curriculum – English
Integrated Foreign Languages Language Curriculum for Senior
Curriculum (2011) Secondary Schools (2003)
Focus on the communicative The curriculum sets aim and demands
dimension to promote students’ in five areas:
thinking and socialization. Linguistic skills: listening, speaking,
Promote literacy in form of reading and writing;
phonemic, structural and Linguistic knowledge: pronunciation,
sociosemiotic which includes vocabulary, grammar, functional
paralinguistic features such as notions and topics;
pictures, videos, charts and maps. Learning strategies: cognitive,
Focus on plurilingualism which aims monitoring, communicative and
at combining, comparing and resource strategies;
contrasting the linguistic codes that Affect; and
an individual acquires Cultural awareness.
In general, EFL curriculum
purpose aims for achieving the
communicative competence.
Promote learner-centeredness
EFL curriculum purpose is
designed contextually
PROS
AND CONS
OF CURRICULUM
OBJECTIVES
The idea of instructional objectives
“Educational institutions could be made more
effective if human enterprises could be analyzed
scientifically”
(Brown, 1995)
“Specification for these school
activities would become the
objective of education”
-Bobbit,1924
“Educational goals were best
stated as objectives that would
describe changes in students
behavior“.
-Tyler 1949
Performance
Instructional
Objjectives
Criteria Condition
Battle Lines are Quickly Drawn
Five main complaints that arise with regard to objective:
1. That objectives are associated with behavioral psychology
2. That some things cannot be quantified
3. That objectives trivialize teaching
4. That objectives limit the teacher freedom
5. That language learning simply cannot be expressed in
objectives
(Brown,1995)
