The Elements of Language Curriculum: A Systematic Approach to Program Development

TeacherSource Teacher Development

by James Dean Brown

This text provides a practical, comprehensive overview of the different phases and activities involved in developing and implementing a sound, rational, and effective language program. It systematically describes and exemplifies all the elements of language curriculum design. Activities and exercises, graphic organizers, and sample language programs illustrate and promote pedagogically sound practice and effective integration of material.

Genres: Education, Teaching, Reference

262 pages, Paperback

First published August 31, 1994

About the author

James Dean Brown, Professor on the graduate faculty of the Department of Second Language Studies at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, specializes in the areas of language testing, curriculum design, program evaluation, and research methods.

Professor Brown has taught extensively in France, the People's Republic of China, Saudi Arabia, Japan, Brazil, Venezuela, and the United States (in California, Florida, and Hawaii). He has served on the editorial boards of the TESOL Quarterly, JALT Journal, and Language Testing as well as on the TOEFL Research Committee, TESOL Advisory Committee on Research, and the Executive Board of TESOL.

In addition to numerous book chapters and articles in TESOL Quarterly, TESOL Matters, Language Learning, Language Testing, Modern Language Journal, JALT Journal, The Language Teacher, System, and RELC Journal, Professor Brown has published a number of books, among them: Understanding Research in Second Language Learning: A teacher's guide to statistics and research design (Cambridge, 1988; also in a Chinese version, 2001, People’s Education Press); The Elements of Language Curriculum: A systematic approach to program development (Heinle & Heinle, 1995); Language Testing in Japan (with Yamashita, JALT, 1995); Testing in Language Programs (Prentice-Hall, 1996; also translated into Japanese in 1999 by Wada, Taishukan Shoten Publishers); New Ways of Classroom Assessment (TESOL, 1998); Using Surveys in Language Programs (Cambridge, 2001); and Criterion-Referenced Language Testing (with Hudson, Cambridge, 2002).

Reviews

[Patricia Graham · Rating 4 out of 5]

systematically organized and it scaffolds each element of curriculumn development, a must for beginning teachers

[Abe Ofarrell · Rating 5 out of 5]

This guide to curriculum for language teachers is probably the best I have read.

It is systematic and clearly written with plenty of examples, checklists and exercises.

It is excellent for people who need to apply the ideas soon.

[Ardi Outsiders]

i like this book

[John Hayward · Rating 5 out of 5]

Used as part of my MA in TESOL programme, the approach and principles advocated in this book have formed the basis of much of what I done in my professional life, from designing language programmes in Tajikistan and Iraq to helping charities and political parties to conduct a review of their core values and how those should subsequently shape all their activities, be it more interactive workshops for the presentation of new ideas or ensuring that candidates and policies actually align with stated beliefs.

[Ulfiana Vilia]

thank you

[Siska Olivia · Rating 5 out of 5]

good book

[Andi Ihwana · Rating 5 out of 5]

i like this book.

[Maureen]

uggiu