Reflection 3

Richards, J. C. (2001). Curriculum development in language teaching. CUP.
Ch. 5 Planning goals and learning outcomes. pp. 112-144.



I don’t deny the importance of social and economic efficiency of curriculum. Foreign education in Korea cannot avoid this trend too. One step further, we may emphasize this aspect more than other countries, since our economy is heavily dependent on exports. The problem is almost all emphasis puts on English, maybe also Chinese nowadays, and other languages such as Spanish, French, German, or Russian are neglected. From this point of view, cultural pluralism of curriculum needs to recover its reasonable value again. Curriculum has to reflect both aspects of social and economic efficiency in one hand, and cultural pluralism in another.