Designing an EFL Oral Communication Course for ELT Students

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2022-01-01

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Taner, Gülden
Balikci, Gozde

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This paper reports on the process of designing an Oral Communication Skills course offered in the first year of an undergraduate English Language Teaching program at an English-medium university in Turkey. This course was designed for pre-service teachers of English as a foreign language, considering the environmental factors and needs, by employing Nation and Macalister's (2010) model of curriculum design. Course instructors, pre-service teachers and recent graduates participated in the study. The course design was guided by the results of environment and needs analyses and related literature. Taking students' interests into consideration in topic selection, researchers adopted the theme-based approach with an aim to address communicative, interactional, and intercultural competence by engaging all students in meaningful interaction across various speech events. This study stands as an example of how diverging constraints can be accommodated in a theme-based approach to course design, responding to the needs of the learners. (c) Association of Applied Linguistics. All rights reserved

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Pre-service Teachers of English, EFL Oral Communication, EAP Course, Curriculum Design

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/99157

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JOURNAL OF LANGUAGE TEACHING AND LEARNING

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G. Taner and G. Balikci, “Designing an EFL Oral Communication Course for ELT Students,” JOURNAL OF LANGUAGE TEACHING AND LEARNING, vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 55–77, 2022, Accessed: 00, 2022. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/99157.