Teachers Perspective onLanguage Curriculum
COMMENTS
INDICATORS
ADVANTAGES
1.) What can you say Literature challenges the readers
about the current comprehension. It touches life and
trend of Language builds connection between the
Curriculum in which lesson and the real life situation. It
literature is used as also serves as motivation and if
springboard to teach used appropriately, it becomes a
language topics? strong stimulus for interaction
among the students with the use of
the grammar lesson.
Are we talking about mother
2.) What can you say tongue to English? The grammar
about the latest in the native tongue or mother
Language Curriculum tongue provides comparison to the
as implemented by English language. If properly
DepEd in comparison implemented, the English
with the previous Language will be better
Language understood when there is better
Curriculum? understanding of the mother
tongue grammar in comparison to
the new language learned.
Outcome based language teaching
3.) What is/are your connects the learner to the learning
comment/s on the objective and to the real life
making of outcome- situation. I think it is more
based assessment or effective and affective.
authentic task in
Language teaching?
Our Schools language curriculum
4. What can you say is a hybrid of what DepEd gives
about the but as far as I can see, todays
competencies and language curriculum makes
skills which are students aim to be understood and
contained in our not to impress at all. The
current Language performance tasks are well
Curriculum? distributed throughout
pronunciation, vocabulary,
grammar, and application of all
aspects of language. For example,
EAPP or English for Academic
and Specific Purposes does not
just strengthen grammar but also
let the students use pronunciation,
vocabulary, and grammar in
business and academic situations.
The competencies are all in all,
very tangible and effective.
It is very challenging and allows
5. What are your the students to navigate through
DISADVANTAGE/S
Most teachers have the tendency
to dwell on the understanding and
deciphering of the springboard
literature almost completely
forgetting the grammar objective
of the lesson.
Mother tongue confuses the
children sometimes. It also kills
some words in both mother tongue
and the second language learned.
for example, in substitute of
tsinelas, children nowadays will
say slippers in the middle of a
vernacular sentence.
Are there? Maybe when outcome-
based assessment of authentic task
in language teaching is not
manage well and does not cope up
with the different speed of
learning and intelligence of the
students, the problem arises. That
is, the student will fail to
appreciate the lesson and the
activity and will therefore be very
not motivated and mechanical in
performance.
Some competencies need more
time and time is often too short for
activities related to the
competencies. Most of the
performance task of the students
also demand a lot of resources like
internet connection, a speech
laboratory, laptops and many
others. If a school do not have the
resources or tools, the objectives
may be unsuccessful so will the
competencies be.
There is a need to access
technology which means if the
comments on the simple to complex lessons school is not prepared to cater to
Spiral Progression repeatedly. I think it is more the demands of the Spiral
framework as effective because it helps connect Curriculum, then the competencies
advocated by K to 12 an area of information to another. are useless. The spiral curriculum
English Curriculum? The repetition and the varying may also become very boring for
degree and complexity for each students who are fast learners. It is
learning forces the mind to a great challenge to the teachers
remember the lesson very well who will cater to the different
which might be helpful especially intelligences and speed of the
if there is an established students.
relationship across disciplines. The
curriculum now is spiral but
implicitly also establishes a
vertical and horizontal curriculum.
For example the curriculum in
language should teach business
correspondence since it is part of
the competencies needed to get a
National Certificate II in
Electronic Products Assembly and
Servicing.