Foundations of Goal Setting and Course Planning

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SETTING GOALS FOR YOUR COURSE 27 Chapter 3 SETTING GOALS FOR YOUR COURSE Preview X X A course will generally be more effective if it is built around a limited and specific set of goals. X X Most of the high-priority goals of a language course should be stated in terms of skills, in other words, what students will learn to do with the language. X X One goal of a course should be to encourage students to engage in some form of independent language study so that they learn to take responsibility for their own language learning. Snow, D., & Campbell, M. (2017). More than a native speaker, third edition : An introduction to teaching english abroad. TESOL Press. Created from wwu on 2022-06-20 18:11:01. Copyright © 2017. TESOL Press. All rights reserved. 28 MORE THAN A NATIVE SPEAKER I magine that you have taken an English teaching job at a university in a country where students are all required to study English in both primary and secondary school. The university has assigned you to teach the three Level I General English: This is a required course for all first-year university students. The assigned textbook addresses reading, writing, speaking, listening, grammar, vocabulary, and eve...