4.3.3. Needs Analysis Objectives and Curriculum Design
With respect to the integrative model and the grammar
activities proposed, the student is supposed to be the focal
participant to benefit from the teaching process. However,
students are different in each class and so are their learning
styles and needs. For this reason, identifying the linguistic,
communicative and discourse features of the curriculum
that need to be taught to a particular group of students
indexes the starting point for the integrative grammar
syllabus. An objective expectation of students’ progress
should take, while designing the syllabus, the following
suggestions into consideration.
− A flexible lesson plan should be designed in a way
to be changed once a given communicative or
the academic need arises.
− A flexible error correction should be performed to
motivate the learner to ask for more exemplification
and more meaningful practice.
− A practical and purposeful assessment should
involve different types of practice to foster the
objective needs and the real pitfalls of students’
overall performance.
− The learning of different academic skills should
link grammar needs to writing, reading
comprehension and communication skills.
− Students integration in more conversational
classroom activities will obviously help the
student’s grammatical and communicative
competence to come up and be ready for acting.
Objectively, when a teacher develops a course
curriculum, it is very helpful to connect students and make
them participants and moderators of the whole design. The
student will accordingly understand the method, the process
and the objectives of the course. The grounding of these
incremental factors in students’ grammar course is probably
a prerequisite to attaining the objectives of the proposed
Exploration, Practice and Integration model.