Curriculum Planning in Teaching English as a Foreign Language.

Abstract

Curriculum design is a word used to depict system organization for content, materials and time with class or course. This study investigates the Curriculum Planning in Teaching English as a Foreign Language of middle school Bouchikhi Elmadani, Ain Dahab, Tiaret. It aims at investigating such topic among 13 teachers of first year middle school. Therefore, through gathering and analyzing data by tool of questionnaire, we attempt in this research to show how teachers plan a curriculum in teaching English for middle school, and if the curriculum planning is effective for teacher, for school and for students or not. The questionnaire’s findings showed that most of teachers see that their curriculum planning is effective; moreover, they use different materials and ICT in order to facilitate presentations of lessons, make students enjoy and motivate them to learn. It is also based on the content to be taught and time to be followed, but they sometimes face problems when planning the curriculum