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

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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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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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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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AU  - Sisi Hu
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TI  - A Study on Learners' Needs Analysis in Curriculum Setting Based on College English Curriculum of Non-English Major Students
BT  - Proceedings of the 2017 4th International Conference on Education, Management and Computing Technology (ICEMCT 2017)
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