Module 20
Developing a Course Design
What’s inside:
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Ordering
Role of material
Time tabling
The role of assessment and evaluation
Ordering
1. Criteria for Prioritising
a) Beginning with target events and rhetorical
awareness
b) From target events and rhetorical awareness
to skill areas to language
2. The role of Materials
The final choice of some features to be
taught and the order they are taught in will
come from the material we select.
3. Timetabling
Through timetabling a final order for the
course outline and a time allocation are
reached.
4. The Role of assessment and evaluation
Assessment will ensure that:
(a) they happen
(b) they are planned and effective
• Grading
Grading is achieved not through the
course order / outline but through the
materials and methodology.
• Grading
The more difficult an area of language, the
more guidance and support a learner
needs in exercises and tasks as well as
more practice