Course description:
Students are supposed to study the following :
Steps of curriculum design (need analysis- objectives construction- content design- piloting- implementation – evaluation ),elements of contents (information –skills – values, with examples), types of curriculum overt, explicit, or written curriculum/ covert curriculum, approaches of syllable design(Product-Oriented Syllabuses, the Structural Approach, the Situational Approach, the Functional Approach, Process-Oriented Syllabuses, Procedural/Task-Based Approaches).
The philosophy of the Palestinian curriculum, analysis and evaluate of English for Palestine text books to find out the strengths and the weaknesses in English for Palestine text books.