TY - BOOK AU - Nation,I.S.P. AU - Macalister,John TI - Language curriculum design T2 - ESL & applied linguistics professional series SN - 9780415806060 (pbk. : alk. paper) U1 - 428.0071 22 PY - 2010/// CY - New York, London PB - Routledge KW - English teachers KW - Training of KW - BUEsh KW - July2015 KW - February2016 KW - HHUUEENN KW - Reading book N1 - Includes appendix; Includes bibliographical references and index ; 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 N2 - 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 ER -