Research Information System
FOCUS ON ELT, vol.2, no.1, pp.1-11, 2020 (Peer-Reviewed Journal)
The Council of Higher Education (CoHE) has
transformed the curriculum for teaching departments into a phase during which
more elective courses are taught in recent years. In accordance with this, the
related innovation led to the constitution of three essential elective
categories named as professional teaching knowledge (PTK), subject area
knowledge (SAK) and general knowledge (GK). To this end, this research study
aimed to investigate and suggest the integration of World Englishes (WE) Course
into English Language Teaching undergraduate programme.
This study initially targeted to
investigate teacher trainers’ view on the most avail contents to encapsulate
within the WE course at English Language Teaching undergraduate programme.
Subsequent to this aim, the study aimed a second movement so as to constitute a
syllabus for this course. With this notion, a study which incorporated two
distinct stages was generated. The primary operation comprised a mixed method
sequential exploratory research design. Correspondingly, documents which
embrace university syllabi and research articles were analysed. Following this
execution, a survey was constituted and conducted on teacher trainers.
Microsoft Excel was utilised with the aim of analysing the documents and SPSS
(Statistical Package for Social Sciences) 21.0 was employed for data analysis.
Results of the study demonstrated that there were 34 essential topics which
were favoured by teacher trainers so as to involve within WE course in ELT
programmes.
Keywords:
syllabus, World Englishes (WE), ELT, elective course