Posted: April 7th, 2015

Critical analysis of Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) in adult second language (English) curriculum

Critical analysis of Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) in adult second language (English) curriculum

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This assessment is intended to assess your knowledge of a significant issue in second language
course design, and your capacity to make a critical evaluation of literature on a significant issue. It also
assesses your ability to describe an issue in second language curriculum, present and support a point
of view on relation that issue, using appropriate academic language and referencing conventions.

Choose on of the issues identified below, and describe the nature of the issue, perspectives on the
issue and your personal point of view on the issue, along with justification for your point of view:
• The nature of a communicative second language curriculum
• Different bases of organisation of second language syllabus design
• The relationship between what is taught in a second language curriculum and approaches to
assessment
• Issues in identifying learner needs in second language course design

Your discussion should include the following sections, and address the relevant questions in each
section:
1. Identification of the issue, and placing it in context (approx. 500 words)
When, how and why has it emerged as an issue in second language course design?? What are the
practical implications of the issue? ?Why is this a significant issue? ?
2. A review of some literature that discusses the issue (approx. 1200 words)
What perspectives are there on the issue?? What arguments do advocates of different
perspectives use to support their arguments??What are the practical implications of the different
perspectives??
3. Your evaluation of and response to these discussions (approx. 700 words)?
Provide your personal evaluation of the issue and response to the arguments you have
encountered in the literature. What is your view, and you reasons for your point of view?? Does this
issue have practical implications for you in your teaching situation? If so, what are they

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