Meeting Student Needs : Steps towards Curriculum Renewal

摘要: No university course or departmental curriculum is perfect. Various conflicting perceptions of the requirements a mean that any will, inevitably, be product compromise. This in itself not necessarily bad thing; colleagues need to work together, and we benefit from listening learning each other. More serious are effects time. A once met expectations needs students, teachers, wider society may with time become outdated cease do this as these change. The goal paper, then, consider afresh English Department students propose changes students. From anecdotal evidence gained through discussions general observations curriculum, impression opportunities for language production, such target-language focused speaking writing activities, were insufficient. We felt there was inadequate allotted developing students’ ability confidence producing communicative purposes. consequence circumstances only small proportion 1st 4th year would willing to, capable of, using beyond classroom, either while still at following graduation. feared some respects replicating, extending, environment found many junior senior high schools, which English, particularly anything other than “katakana English”, too difficult, embarrassing, showing off (Brown, 2004). Finally, although 3rd take advantage various ‘active English’ classes available them (including Presentation Discussion, Project Work, Advanced classes), by stage their already feel they becoming proficient users,