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Curriculum Development Research Using Amplified Objectives

CULI, Thailand

Amplified objectives, which incorporate socio-cultural dimensions of language communication, are appropriate for designing an ELT curriculum for the contemporary society where English is a major language of the "wider circle". Such dimensions as skills, language functions, channel of communication, genre, theme and topic, situation or setting, role and status of language users, style and register, etc., are all accounted for in planning a language program to cope with real language use for personal, social, academic and professional purposes. In this paper the author proposes that amplified objectives are the path to learning languages for communicative purposes, which include the setting of goals, methods, strategies, techniques, standards, assessment, and evaluation. The rationale of the proposal is based on "pragmatism" and "constructivism" upon which "amplified objectives" rest.

RELC Journal, Vol. 33, No. 2, 85-98 (2002)
DOI: 10.1177/003368820203300204


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