Video Teacher effectiveness and Curriculum design part 1.

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The role of materials in the innovation of the ELT curriculum

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The Role of Materials in the Innovation of the ELT Curriculum  Astrid Díaz Cabrera adcabrera93@gmail.com  Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Mexico Isis Armilevy Vázquez Alegría isisvazquez1314@gmail.com Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Mexico Abstract An essential component of curriculum involves the selection of materials for teaching and learning because curriculum materials “provide guidance and structure to teachers as they enact the intended school curriculum” (Reys, Reys, Lapan, & Holliday, 2003, p. 74). However, curriculum is not what is written in textbooks or in policy guidelines; it is what actually takes place in the classroom (Remillard, 2000). Thus, when teachers adapt curriculum materials to meet their students’ needs, they are innovating the intended curriculum. Consequently, the current study focuses on the role of materials in the innovation of the ELT curriculum based on the hypothesis that materi...
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Needs’ analysis and teacher effectiveness

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Needs’ analysis and teacher effectiveness Needs’ analysis A general definition of needs analysis is described by Iwai et al . (1999), cited in Songhori (2008), as the activities that are involved in collecting information that will serve as the basis for developing a curriculum that will meet the needs of a particular group of students.  Khan & Awan (2011) define the term as “a process undertaken by trainers, teachers and course designers to ascertain the pre-requisites for developing a course and its implementation”. This process is also termed as needs assessment by some authors presented below: Richterich (1983) as cited in Cowling (2007) argues that the concept of learners’ needs remains ambiguous. West (1994) as cited in Cowling (2007) describes Needs’ analysis as the identification of “what learners will be required to do with the foreign language in the target situation, and how learners might best master the target language during the period of training’ (p...
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