Curriculum Analysis of General High School English Program
1. What needs does it respond to?
It’s to develop students’ comprehensive language competence. This aim is broken
down into five general objectives. The five general objectives are: Language Skills,
Language Knowledge, Attitudes to Learning, Learning Strategies, Cultural Awareness.
2. What language items and text types does it include?
Language items:
Phonetics: pronunciation, stress, linking, intonation, rhythm, stress, intonation…
Vocabulary: roots, affixes, word change patterns, singular and plural forms,
pronouns, verbs, prepositions...
Grammar: the past future tense, the present progressive tense and present perfect
tense, the passive voice, the verb infinitive as a determiner and consequent in sentences,
restricted determiner clauses…
Text types:
Narrative, explanatory, applied, news, prose, drama, fable, other types of discourse
such as catalogues or guides, tables and diagrams, schedules, notice boards, maps and
illustrations, menus and cooking recipes, rules, operating instructions, weather
forecasts, songs, poems…
3. How are they organized?
The curriculum promotes task-based learning whereby, under the guidance of the
teacher, the students gain a sense of achievement by reaching the goals of the task. Task
completion will involve the following types of learning: Sensory, Experiential, ‘Hands
on’/practical, Participatory, Cooperative.
4. What learning experiences does it offer?
The curriculum should strive to use and develop resources whose content is: realistic,
close to the students’ lives, contemporary, healthy, rich and varied.
Active use should be made of: audio visual material, print media, the Internet.
5. How is learning evaluated?
Formative assessment should be an important part of the English teaching and
learning process with a particular emphasis on encouraging students’ active
participation in learning, improving students’ self-confidence.
Summative assessment should focus on testing students’ integrated language skills,
testing students’ ability to use language.