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Language curriculum design: an overview -- Environment analysis -- Needs analysis -- Principles -- Goals, content and sequencing -- Format and presentation -- Monitoring and assessment -- Evaluation -- Approaches to curriculum design -- Negotiated syllabuses -- Adopting and adapting an existing course book -- Introducing change -- Planning an in-service course -- Teaching and curriculum design.

This text describes the steps involved in the curriculum design process, elaborates and justifies these steps, and provides opportunities for practicing and applying them. The description of the steps is done at a general level so that they can be applied in a wide range of particular circumstances. The process comes to life through plentiful examples of actual applications of the steps. Each chapter includes: examples from the authors' experience and from published research; tasks that encourage readers to relate the steps to their own experience; and case studies and suggestions for further reading that put readers in touch with others' experience. --From publisher's description.

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