Second Language Curriculum Development

This report focuses on the development of a curriculum called Study, Grow, Repeat, which is designed to teach students not only the English language but also knowledge of the world and ideas needed to survive in school. The report discusses the target learners, teaching program, and rationale of the program.

Running head: SECOND LANUGAGE CURRICULLUM DEVELOPMENT
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Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author Note

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Executive Summary
Curriculum is defined as the experiences of the student that occurs in the procedures of
education. The term defines particularly to a sequence of instructions that are planned, or to a
view of the experience of the students. Study, Grow, Repeat is a curriculum that is designed
in order to teach the students not only the English language but also the knowledge of the
world and the ideas that are needed to survive in the school. The report focuses on the
learners or the students that will be targeted for the curriculum that will be designed. The
report has a detailed description about the teaching program of the curriculum and lastly the
report discusses about the rationale of the program that will be designed.

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Table of Contents
Introduction:...............................................................................................................................3
Discussions.................................................................................................................................3
Target Learners......................................................................................................................3
Teaching Program..................................................................................................................5
Rationale of the program........................................................................................................8
Conclusion................................................................................................................................15
References................................................................................................................................16

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Introduction:
Curriculum is defined as the experiences of the student that occurs in the procedures
of education. The term defines particularly to a sequence of instructions that are planned, or
to a view of the experience of the students. The area of development of curriculum is a set of
procedures that arerelated to each other and focuses on the designing, revising,
implementation and evaluation of the programs of the languages. A kind of curriculum for
the purposes that are particular, the courses aims at preparing the learners in order to access
the workforce that have a number of features that are distinctive and there are some
considerations that should be taken into description in procedure of developing the language.
Study, Grow, Repeat is a curriculum that is designed in order to teach the students not only
the English language but also the knowledge of the world and the ideas that are needed to
survive in the school. The report focuses on the learners or the students that will be targeted
for the curriculum that will be designed. The report has a detailed description about the
teaching program of the curriculum and lastly the report discusses about the rationale of the
program that will be designed.
Discussions
Target Learners
The context of learning consists of anything in the environment that is surrounding
that is social, physical, and institutional and the personal environments that influences the
learning and teaching. The physical environment consists of the classroom where teaching or
learning occurs. The social environment consists of the relationship between the students and
the teachers and the norms that are cultural play an important role in what can and does
happen in the classroom. The context of teaching is for the purpose of school and teaching

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the school students of class 1 to class five, as they require good English knowledge for
writing, reading and communication skills.
The curriculum will be designed for the students from 4 years of age to 16 years of
age. They should be taught properly as this is the age of learning and it is the age when they
will get to learn the new ideas. The language that should be taught t the students should be
English according to the ESL and EFL teaching program. English is a very important
language as everything is studied in English. Learning English from a very small age will
help the students to be proficient in English and the students will have good writing, reading
and communication skills. The social background refers to the history of the students of how
they were raised and their ethnicity and the background of the family. The social background
of the students should be good. The students should be taught irrespective of the social
background. The student can be immigrant or from another culture but they should be taught
the same language as the other students from the country. The types of class are the subjects
that are taught in school and among them English should be given the priority.
The students should have interest in English, as it is one of the most important subject
or a language. It should be taught to every student of the school. The teacher must be good
enough to create interest in the students for studying English as a language and not as a
subject. This will help the student to excel in the language.
The length of the lessons must not be very lengthy. It should be short and compact
and should well understand by the students. The lessons should not be haphazard, as it will
confuse the students where to start and where to end. Six to seven fours of teaching per week
should be enough for the students to learn English. There should be interactive session in the
classroom so that the student does not become boring. The students should also practice the
things that are being taught in the class. It will help the students to be better in the language.

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Teaching Program
Wee
k
Unit/topic objectives Language
functions
Activities Resources Assessment
1-3 1 personal
introductio
n
Student
will be able
to
introduce
themselves
among all
the
students
present in
class.
Socialising
greetings
Proper
speaking
and
speaking
skills
Discussio
n skills as
well as
strategies
A group of
students that
are ready to
communicat
e
Basic small
talk
including
‘How are
you’
4-7 2 Numbers
1-100
Alphabet
and
spelling
skills
The
students
will learns
to read the
numbers
from 1-
100 and
learn the
alphabets
and write
spellings
The
function is
to learn
English
without
any
spelling
mistakes
and learn
to count
the
numbers
Proper
counting
of
numbers
and to
write
proper
spelling
without
mistakes.
Spelling
books and
book of
numbers
Pronunciatio
n
Counting
skills and
telephone
numbers.

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8-10 3 Pronouns
Adjectives
Adverbs
Simple
present
To learn
the basics
of English
grammar
and where
to place
them to
make a
sentence
meaningful
.
The
functions
of the
basic
grammar
of English
is to make
meaningfu
l sentences
and not
make any
errors
related to
grammar
Doing the
exercises
that are
based on
grammar.
Writing
essays and
reading
books
Grammar
book, story
books
Recognizing
the
connection
between this,
that, here.
The use of
simple
present in
everyday
routines
The use of
adverbs of
frequency.
Unit 1
Topics: personal introduction
Objectives: The student will be able to introduce themselves to other students and teachers
The student will be able to greet others.
Assessments: talking with a group of students will help the student to learn introducing to
others
Class 1 Grammar
Listening
Visual aids
notebook

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Reading
writing
Class 2 Speaking
Listening
writing
Question and answer sheets
Vocabulary cards
Notebook
worksheet
Class 3 Grammar
Spelling skills
Reading skills
Question and answers
Textbook
Notebook
Class 4 Writing skills
Listening skills
Speaking skills
Question and answer sheets
Visual aids, notebook
Notebook.
Language focuses each unit: unit 1-personal introduction
Unit2- numbers 1-100 and spelling skills
Unit 10: Pronouns
Adjectives
Adverbs
Simple present
Skill focus: writing, speaking
Goals: the student will be able to learn the grammar skills and write proper sentences
without error.

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The student will be able to speak right English without any grammatical errors.
Outcomes: unit 1- the student will be good in personal introduction
Unit 2- the student will be good in counting numbers and writing spellings
Unit 10- the students will be good in grammars and speaking skills
Resources: the resources will be notebooks, grammar books and visual aids
Tasks: the tasks of the students should be read the grammar books and to solve the
exercises of grammar. To speak with the other students to increase the speaking skills
Rationale of the program
Need analysis
Discovering the learner’s requirements is paramount for any employment, learner-
centred focused curriculum. The learner centred curriculum mainly empowers all the learners
in taking the significant ownership of the materials that would be learnt by them by mainly
emphasising on the methods by which the new knowledge helps in solving any problem or
even adds value (Al Badi, 2015). Rather than easily pouring all the required information in
the mind of the learner, the educator mainly presents students with the main issue and then
guides the class as solution is developed for the issue. The learners learns some innovative
information and then present effective solutions rather than passively waiting for answers of
the educators. It has been analysed that the learner based curriculum mainly permits the
students in interacting with the teams with the help of effective discussions as well as the
group activities (Carnero, 2017). This efficient approach mainly encourages the students in
sitting in the groups for executing coordination. With having significant discussion with the
educators and other education providers, the learners learns the importance of working in the
teams and then efficiently solve any issue with the help of collaboration (Chen, Goodson &

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Acosta, 2015). From the perspective of the educators, the learning centred curriculum is
commonly considered as the approach of teaching that could helpful for providing the
required knowledge using the effective methods and processes. The learning focussed
curriculums mainly assists with implementing more than one methods of learning in the
classrooms. This particular approach focusses on the variety of the various kinds of methods
that emphasised on the materials that are being learnt by the students, and it would help in
changing the role of the educator in the classrooms (Durán, 2016). The conventional teaching
without any curriculum frequently leads to the students who are significantly passive learners
and who does not take any accountability for their respective learning. In the contrast to this
conventional method of learning, the learner centred curriculum could be easily implemented
when the educators mainly focusses on the student learning (Fan, 2019). The learning centred
approach of curriculum implements the main focus on any particular person who has been
doing all the learning, and in this case the students. The modified learning curriculum would
include the active learning, the inductive learning and teaching and the cooperative learning
that would provide the students with all the education easily. The active learning could be
considered as that aspect where the students solve the problems, answers the questions
efficiently, formulates the questions of own, explain, debate, discuss and then brainstorm for
solving the issues that are being faced by them (Fleming, 2019). In the aspect of the
cooperative learning, the students mainly works in efficient teams on the projects and the
problems under the conditions that significantly assure the individual responsibility and the
positive interdependence (Widodo, 2016). The inductive learning could be described as the
aspect where the students are mainly presented with the challenges that allows them to learn
all the course materials in context of the addressing any challenge. The inductive methods
mainly include the inquiry based learning, the case based instruction, the problem based
learning, the project based learning, and the discovery learning (Glatthorn et al., 2018). It

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could analysed that the introduction of learner focussed curriculum would help in increasing
the engagement of the learners with the educators. It helps the learners to engage in efficient
learning procedures (Razak et al., 2016). On the conventional teaching methods without the
curriculum, the educators face significant difficulty with the learners because there is no
proper structure of study for the learners (Guo, 2018).
Learners require surrounding of both target requirements and learning requirements
and are identifiable elements for student’s target situations of English. There is lack of
requirements with respect to tripartite learners (Hassan & Selamat, 2017). It is role of
syllabus in bridging the gap among needs and lacks. Employment purpose with respect to
English, however more essential would be types of work which would be searched by them,
their work experience from past, their development rate within the course and their
knowledge about cultural norms. Holistic approach for analysis of needs must consider the
cultural needs of the learner and their specific culturally commitments for children,
workforce hopes and social and economic realities (Hawkes & Nassaji, 2016).
For ensuring intermediate’s entry level and locating needs of specific learner. From
there, determination of proficiency levels can be done and key areas for grammar which
needs special attention along with learning styles would be revealed (Javed, 2017). Previous
non-language knowledge of the learner regarding culture of Australia, workforce and the
rights of theirs at work could be revealed also along with their desires, dreams and hopes. In
learner-centred, the negotiated curriculum which identifies needs of learners is not
preliminary step, however is ongoing concern which requires consistent monitoring (Knoch
et al., 2015). The learner’s needs, especially with respect to employment evolve often during
course. As result, dairy device is employed by this curriculum as formative assessment (Leki,
2017). As the reaction towards conventional procedures of writing anything, the new idea of
diary was defined (Machell, Goodman & Kashdan, 2015). As it has been defined several

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researchers that the diary is a innovative approach of organising the thoughts and ideas of any
individual, it helps the people with learning and developing efficiently (McCrocklin & Link,
2016). As per the new curriculum, the writing could be described as the procedure that needs
not solely the ideas as well as thinking but efficient vocabulary, punctuation and the grammar
for expressing these particular ideas (Köberich, 2016). It has been considered that effective
writing is significantly complicated procedure as compared to the use of speech. For
mastering writing, any writer requires to master all characteristics that are associated with it
that includes rich vocabulary, efficient knowledge of grammar as well as mechanics of
writing. As per the new curriculum, the main focus has been placed on the use of innovative
methods of providing education to the learners and help them to gain employment (Davis,
2018). The diary could be considered as the often kept, frequently daily, records of any
personal experiences as well as observations where the ongoing feelings, the thoughts as well
as the ideas could be easily expressed (Mitchell, 2015). It could be considered that
increasingly the diaries are presently being used for investigating the psychological, social as
well as physiological processes in the situations of daily life in several academic, educational
and the vocational settings (Oliver, Rochecouste & Nguyen, 2017). It could be analysed that
the one most important feature of the diary methodology is that the examination of the
reported events as well as the experiences could be easily done with the help of the details
recorded in the diary (Schnitzspahn et al., 2016). It could also be considered that the diary
consists of natural, spontaneous context, and it provides the required information
complementary to what could be obtained by the use of the conventional designs of research.
It could be considered that the diaries helps in reducing the probability of retrospection as
there minimum elapsing of time among any experience and the recalling (Paatsch, Hutchison
& Cloonan, 2019). In the new educating approach, it could be considered that the use of diary
would help the educators to monitor the progress of the learners each week by carefully

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examining the development of the thought process of the learners (Bartlett & Milligan, 2015).
There are several instances where the learners are not gaining the proper knowledge and they
do not have any medium to convey this issue to the educators, but with the examination of the
diary each week by the educators, the educators could obtain the required knowledge about
the condition of the learners (Price, 2018). The learners increase their flow of conveying
information to the educators with the help of diary as they could write down all their issues
easily in the diary (Grimm, 2019).
Diary which is collected by teacher at end of every week, works in several ways. Firstly, the
aim of diary is encouraging the reflection of learner and writing among with personal ‘I’ for
promoting autonomy of learner and in identifying formation (Johansson et al., 2015).
Secondly, dairy acts as way in monitoring language proficiency and outcomes of the learner
every week. Thirdly and most important function is allowing curriculum’s ongoing
renegotiation along with desires and needs as expressed by learner in the dairy entries
(Rispens & Demerouti, 2016). For instance, where desires are shown by learners for knowing
more about particular language function or form, could be mentioned in the next week. If it
becomes unnecessary or demotivating for learners from first lesson of every day, it could be
joined with currently divided communicative lesson at the middle of the day.
Situational Analysis
In situation analysis, how content constraint and teacher would impact successful
execution of curriculum is considered. Like several community based, language programs
funded by the government would be delivered under class with huge population of student of
almost 25. Only 10 computers are available and neither the school nor the learners have funds
for purchasing textbooks for every learner. Motivation for learner for courses which actively
meet the needs and target in equipping them with retaining and attaining employment skills is
normally very high. As new graduated teacher, there is lack in skills for instructor of

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seasoned language and experience and might struggle also with management of classroom.
Volunteer’s reliance in assisting along with supervisor or mentor could be necessary. As there
is schooling experience for the learners, the classroom management’s potential should be
reduced in becoming an issue.
Considering the analysis of needs and situation, wide goals could be formulated. Here
results of analysis of needs must be hypothetical, however could be based on the literature
review surrounding community for programs of employment. Learner’s first goal would be
attaining employment. However, equipping learners having minimum functional language for
entering workforce disservices learners in different ways is considered.
Due to a range of goals that are ambitious that are identified, the cope of the course is
large that some other language. The topics include all the topics that are include in the basic
English language. The curriculum has been designed in such a way in order to enable units
that are certain that are to be modified and dropped that is based on the need analysis that is
ongoing.
The learner factors play an important role in the situational analysis of the curriculum.
The learners are very important and the curriculums are made for them so that they can learn
the English language well as it will be required in every phase of their study.
The teacher factors are also an important part of the situational analysis. The teachers
play an important role in the curriculum, as they will teach the students through the
curriculum. They need to understand the curriculum well in order to teach the students. The
curriculum consists of all the procedures that are required for the students to learn the English
language well. The teacher should be good and not boring so that the students are interested
to do the class and learn the language well. The teacher factor is an important factor in the
development of the curriculum and the situation analysis. The teacher should take interactive

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sessions in the class and not boring lectures so that the students interact with the other
students and their skills of speaking is enhanced. The teacher also should give them some
random topics and as the students to write about the topic. It will enhance their writing skills
as well as their grammars.
The cultural considerations come into account in the situation analysis. Every student
irrespective of his or her culture should be taught the language. They have the right to study
the English language. Like everyone, the curriculum is also made for him or her. The schools
should allow cross culture students to speak and write English
The theories that are underlying the design of this program for the group of learners is study,
grow and repeat. They should follow this theory, then they will learn the English language
well. The curriculum is good enough for this group of learners to learn the language. The
program is defined systematically from lower level to upper level from easy to difficulty
level, from beginner to tough. The theories are based on the ESL or EFL teaching program.
The learners should learn the language well with the help of the teachers and the learning
program that are being developed for them. The curriculum is designed to go beyond the
other courses of language. The selection, adaptation, and the integration of the syllabus that
are important and the approaches of teaching work together with the assessment and the
content of the course in order to provide the learners with a program that is holistic and that is
centred on the desires and the needs.

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Conclusion
The report concludes with the rationale of the learning program that is being
developed. The report also discusses about designing of the curriculum for the school
students. The name of the curriculum is study, grow, and repeat. The area of development of
curriculum is a set of procedures that are related to each other and focuses on the designing,
revising, implementation and evaluation of the programs of the languages. A kind of
curriculum for the purposes that are particular, the courses aims at preparing the learners in
order to access the workforce that have a number of features that are distinctive and there are
some considerations that should be taken into description in procedure of developing the
language. Study, Grow, Repeat is a curriculum that is designed in order to teach the students
not only the English language but also the knowledge of the world and the ideas that are
needed to survive in the school. The report focuses on the learners or the students that will be
targeted for the curriculum that will be designed. For mastering writing, any writer requires to
master all characteristics that are associated with it that includes rich vocabulary, efficient
knowledge of grammar as well as mechanics of writing. As per the new curriculum, the main
focus has been placed on the use of innovative methods of providing education to the learners
and help them to gain employment. The report has a detailed description about the teaching
program of the curriculum and lastly the report discusses about the rationale of the program
that will be designed.

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