Overview of Curriculum Components

      Languages teacher have long been faced with a plethora of “methods” from which to choose.Each “method” has tended to claim for it self authority concerning what students need to learn,the best way to match the student’s learning styles , or in some cases the turth about how to present or practice language.The view to promote is that curriculum development is a series of activities will provide a framework that helps teachers to accomplish whatever combination of teaching activities is most suitable in their proffesional judgement for a given situation.

       Models of language curriculum design have undergone considerable evolution , an evolution reflect in the models. On the language teaching literature list above but also fits the more general models used to describe long establish systems apporoaches to curriculum design.

Strategies to Teaching Speaking

The strategies are :

1.      Setting Clear Lesson Goals

 It is crucial that teacher be clear about what he wants students to learn during each lesson. If teacher cannot quickly and easily state what he wants the students to know and be able to do at the end of a given lesson, the goal of the lesson will be unclear. Clear lesson goalshelp teacher (and students) to focus every other aspect of lesson on what matters most.

2.       Showing & Telling

Teacher should normally start lessons with show and tell. Put simply, telling involves sharing information or knowledge with the students while showing involves modeling how to do something. When teacher has cleared about what he wants students to know and be able to do by the end of the lesson, a teacher needs to tell them what they need to know and show how to do the tasks.

3.      Questioning to Check for Understanding

Research suggests that teachers typically spend a large amount of teaching time asking questions. However, few teachers use questions to check for understanding within a lesson. However, a teacher should always check for understanding before moving onto the next part of their lesson. Techniques such as randomized sampling, student answer-boards and tell-a-friend are helpful.

Materials

The role and designed of instructional materials

         Instructional material generally serve as the basis for much of the language input learner receive and the language practice that occurs in the classroom. Dudley Evans and St. John  (1998,170-171) suggest that for teacher of ESP course, materials serve the following functions:

·         As a source of language

·         As a learning support

·         For motivation and simulation

·         For reference

The materials provide the basis for content of lesson, the balance of skill thought, and the kinds of language practice student take part in.