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[santi84]

Hello fellow teachers! I need to urgently brush up on curriculum design for an upcoming opportunity in general adult education. Do you have any personal recommendations to offer?

[fluffyhamster]

http://rdues.bcu.ac.uk/ > http://rdues.bcu.ac.uk/bibliog.shtml > http://rdues.bcu.ac.uk/bibliog.shtml#AJR > http://rdues.bcu.ac.uk/publ/Lexical_Syllabus.pdf

http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/english/research/resources/index.aspx > http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/english/research/resources/lexical-syllabus.aspx (I also have a several-years-old printout somewhere of an MA module-y guide to syllabus design or somesuch, that ran to about 150 pages, that Dave Willis wrote with his wife IIRC, trying to find the link. But there's similar stuff here: http://www.philseflsupport.com/syllabus_design.htm )

> http://arts-ccr-002.bham.ac.uk/ccr/patgram/

I have a number of other books on syllabus and task design (Yalden, White, Nunan, etc) but a) they may appear dated or you may want only the most "up to date" thinking, and b) I think lexical approaches cover certainly the actual linguistic essentials very well. But it might still be worth looking in the bibliographic sections of the following book (Tomlinson's Materials Development in Language Teaching), which is at least relatively recent:
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=jqSS9_fbZYIC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

[nomad soul]

"Rigorous Curriculum Design: How to Create Curricular Units of Study that Align Standards, Instruction, and Assessment" by Larry Ainsworth
Amazon has it in paperback and Kindle format.