English Curriculum and Material Development

English Language Teaching Material Development

The goal of language programs is to utilize language for effective communication. Due to the needs, interests, and motivations of language learners, they may show individual differences in their lan- guage learning. Materials used in language programs can be instructional, experiential, elucidative, or exploratory in that they can inform learners about the language, provide experience of the la...

Material Development and English for Academic Purposes Word Lists; a Reductionist Approach

Nagy (1988) states that vocabulary is a prerequisite factor in comprehension. Drawing upon a reductionist approach and having in mind the prospects for material development, this study aimed at creating an English for Academic Purposes Word List (EAPWL). The corpus of this study was compiled from a corpus containing 6479 pages of texts, 2,081,678 million tokens (running words) and 63825 types (...

Supplementary Material to Curriculum Dropout

Pattern Analysis & Computer Vision (PAVIS) – Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia – Genova, 16163, Italy Department of Biomedial Engineering – Johns Hopkins University – Baltimore, MD 21218, USA Electrical, Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering and Naval Architecture Department (DITEN) – Università degli Studi di Genova – Genova, 16145, Italy Computer Science Department – Università di Veron...

Challenges for Digital Literacy in English Curriculum

This paper presents and describes the implementation of digital literacy in English curriculum in the context of Hong Kong. We outline two major challenges of introducing digital pedagogy in humanities classrooms at the undergraduate level and discuss with specific reference to two cases the strategies we have taken to tackle them.

Using the Internet to Enhance English Curriculum