Round 1
A quick definition of curriculum.
All the experiences, activities, resources, methods, and teaching strategies used by the teacher to achieve the fines of education. (UNESCO 1918).
How many units does the new curriculum has per level?
6 units
The first principle of the AOA says that ...
students are social agents that use language to perform specific actions in real-life contexts meaningfully.
Meaning of AOA
Action Oriented Approach
Meaning of ICT's
Information and communication technologies.
Mention one reason why Costa Rica needed a new English curriculum.
Updated curriculum
Not reaching the expected levels despite the years of instruction.
Lacking of effective communication skills.
Mention the four domains of the new English Curriculum.
Socio-interpersonal
Socio-transactional
Academic
Professional
The name of the formative evaluation used at the end of each unit in which learners select what they want, in order to prove they achieved the goals of the unit.
Integrated mini-project.
Mention the curricular policy
Educating for a new citizenship.
Meaning of CEFR
Common European Framework of Languages.
Mention the name of the three pillars
Learn to know, learn to do, learn to be and to live in community.
What is the mediation sequence for reading competence?
Pre-task - reading for the first time - peer group and feedback - reading for the second time - post task.
Mention the two dominant approaches in the new English Curriculum.
TASK BASED & AOA
What learning resources are used with the new English curriculum?
authentic texts: business cards, newspapers, bus tickets and so on.
A synonym of Can dos.
Goals or descriptors.