Curriculum and Material Development offers a clear and principled introduction to the design of language courses, from the first questions a planner must ask to the evaluation that judges whether a course has done its work. Across ten chapters it traces the whole of the enterprise: the meaning of curriculum and syllabus, the translation of goals into teachable plans, the communicative syllabus and the shapes a syllabus may take, the influence of context, the formulation of aims and outcomes, the planning of courses, the formation of the language teacher, and the approaches by which a course is evaluated and improved. Throughout, design is presented not as the mechanical application of rules but as a process of reasoned decision making, informed by theory and answerable to the learners it serves.
Written for language teachers, teacher educators, and students of applied linguistics, the book combines the insights of foundational scholarship with practical guidance and worked illustration. It assumes no prior expertise in curriculum theory, yet it does not avoid the questions that matter, and it equips readers to analyse, design, and refine the courses and materials through which people learn a second language. For anyone who plans, teaches, or studies language courses, it provides both a map of the field and a set of tools for the work.
- Titled: Curriculum and Material Development: A Foundation for Designing, Planning, and Evaluating Language Courses
- Writer: Ishak
- Editor: Wahyu
- Publisher: Pustaka Warani
- Number of pages: x + 196 pages
- ISBN: Being processed
- Price: Rp85.000,-
