Proceedings of the 2017 4th International Conference on Education, Management and Computing Technology (ICEMCT 2017)

A Study on Learners' Needs Analysis in Curriculum Setting Based on College English Curriculum of Non-English Major Students

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Sisi Hu
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Sisi Hu
Available Online May 2017.
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10.2991/icemct-17.2017.144How to use a DOI?
Keywords
learners' needs, curriculum setting, college English, curriculum objectives, curriculum content, curriculum implementation.
Abstract

Curriculum setting is a dynamic system, which is composed of curriculum objectives, content, implementation and evaluation. Learners' needs is one of its key sources. By means of a questionnaire survey among non-English major students, this study finds students of different genders, language proficiencies and majors have significant differences in their college English curriculum needs of its objectives, content and implementation: (1) female students have significantly stronger needs in curriculum objectives, content, implementation than male students; (2) high level proficiency students' needs of abundant and pluralistic curriculum content are significantly stronger than low level proficiency students; (3) there are significant differences among students with different majors in their needs of curriculum objectives and content.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2017 4th International Conference on Education, Management and Computing Technology (ICEMCT 2017)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
May 2017
ISBN
978-94-6252-323-4
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/icemct-17.2017.144How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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