3. In deriving goals from perceived needs, four
points should be remembered:
1. Goals are general statements of the
program’s purposes
2. Goals should usually focus on what the
program hopes to accomplish in the future,
and particularly on what the students
should be able to do when they leave the
program.
3. Goals can serve as one basis for
developing more precise and observable
objectives.
4. Goals should never be viewed as
permanent, that is they should never
become set in cement.
4. OBJECTIVES
Objectives defined as specific
statements that describe the
particular knowledge, behaviours,
and/ or skills that the learner will
be expected to know or perform at
the end of a course or programme.
It means that objectives is
something that one’s efforts or
actions are intended to attain or
accomplish
5. GOALS
Goals is a general statements
concerning desirable and attainable
programme purposes and aims based
on perceived language and situation
needs.
It means that goal the purpose toward
which an endeavour is directed.
6. FROM GOALS TOWARD
OBJECTIVES
The process of converting
perceptions of students needs into
goals and objectives provides the
basic units that can in turn be used
to define and organize all teaching
activities into a cogent curriculum.
7. GETTING INSTRUCTIONAL
OBJECTIVES ON PAPER
Sources Idea for Objectives
This include other programmes and their
curriculums, the books, and journals that constitute the
language teaching literature and educational taxonomies
that were worked out as far back as the 1950’s.
1. Other language programmes
2. The literature
3. Taxonomies
8. Sound Instructional Objectives
Having broken down the perceptions of the
students needs into goals and potential objectives and
having organize them on the basis of all available
information, the next step for planners is to state them
as clear and ambiguous instructional objectives.
1. Subject
2. Performance
3. Condition
4. Measure
5. criterion
9. PROS AND CONS CURRICULUM
OBJECTIVES
Battle lines or quickly drawn
The main complains that arise
with regard to objectives are:
1. Objectives are associative with
behavioural phycology
2. Some things cannot be quantify
3. Objectives revitalize teaching
4. Objectives limit the teachers
freedom
5. Language learning simply cannot
be express in objectives
10. Objectives do not bite
The teachers next door who uses objectives is
at least attempting to define what she hopes to teach
the students to do.
Examples of Goals and Objective
Gangzhou English Centre Zhongshan University
It notes that this information seems to be
addressed to the students revealed this objectives
reflected what we wanted the students to be able to do
at the end of the course and therefore we show no
reason to keep them secret. The objectives were
distributed and explained on the first day of class so
that students would know where the teachers thought
the students ought to be habit in the course.
11. English Language Institute University of
Hawaii at Manoa
Recall that their needs assessment
was for the upper level ESL listening
course in the ELI at the UHN. Notice how
different this objectives are in format from
those for the same skills in another
programme. Kimzin and Proctor choose to
organize their objectives around the main
goals described in their assessment of the
listening needs of students at UHN
following the pattern of microskills
presented in Richards 1983