Ch3-5. Goals and Objectives

Table 3.10 Example Objectives from GELC Culture Level A Course (GELC 1982) Students should be able to answer true-false questions on the following topics with 70 percent accuracy. CULTURE 5% 1. Definition of “culture.” (Lecture Notes 1) FAMILY 10%1.Definitions and statistics for the following types of families: nuclear, single-parent, blended, and extended. (Lecture Notes 4, Videotapes) 5%2.Rate and causes of divorce in the U.S. (Lecture Notes 4) 5%3.Roles and responsibilities for the different family members. (Videotapes; Beyond Language [Levine & Adelman 1982], pp WORK 10%1.Different attitudes toward work. (Beyond Language, pp ) 5%2.Definitions of the following terms: white collar; blue collar; minimum wage; salaries; hourly. (Videotapes, Beyond Language, pp ) 5%3.The normal work schedule

5%4.High prestige/low prestige jobs. (Beyond Language, p. 191) 5%5.High salary/low salary jobs. (Beyond Language, p. 194) SCHOOL 5%1.Basic organization of the American education syste: elementary, junior high, senior high, and college. (Visiting the USA [Lanier 1973], chapter 5) 5%2.Differences between private and public education (Visiting the USA, chapter 5) 10%3.Values underlying our education system. (Lecture Notes 3) 10%4.Education vocabulary. (Beyond Language, pp ) 10%5.Teacher/student expectations (Beyond Language, pp ) 5%6.Definitions of the following term: lecture, seminar, discussion section. 100% Total

Table 3.11 Example Objectives from GELC Listening Level A Course (adapted from GELC 1982) At the end of Level A Listening, the students should be able to do the following: DIRECTIONS AND SPATIAL RELATIONS 1.Given an oral statement containing spatial direction, they will identify the space indicated on a map, diagram, chart, or graph by answering in written form an oral question about what is located or written in that space with 80 percent accuracy. … 5.After filling in numbers on a chart, they will listen to directions and read the chart in order to answer four to eight oral questions with 60 percent accuracy. NUMBERS AND NUMERICAL RELATIONSHIPS 1.Given an oral statement containing a number up to nine digits, they will demonstrate 80 percent comprehension of the number by writing it into a blank with one repetition. … 4.Given oral clues, they will be able to distinguish differences between addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division problems with 100 percent accuracy.

TIME AND TEMPORAL SEQUENCE 1.Demonstrate comprehension of the following concepts: Greenwich Mean Time, telling time, frequency adverbs, sequence, punctual versus durative, and adjectival use of time by answering 24 oral questions with 60 percent accuracy. … 5.Given 10 oral problems involving times, names, and other facts, they will answer in written form with 60 percent accuracy. … Other units included Date and Chronological Order, Measurements and Amounts, Proportion, Comparison and Contrast, and Getting the Facts. Each unit had between two and seven objectives associated with it.

Table 3.12 Example Objectives from UHM Listening Course, ELI 70 #1 (adapted from Kimzin & Proctor 1986) GOAL #1 Students will be able to follow an argument, theme, or thesis of a lecture Microskills: A. Lecture organization 1. Identify cause-and-effect relationships. 2. Identify comparisons and contrasts. 3. Cite premises in persuasive arguments 4. Recognize supporting details in persuasive arguments. 5. Understand explanation or a model (graph, chart, diagram, or formula). B. Cohesion 1. Recognize commonly used formulaic expressions. 2. Recognize commonly used idioms. 3. Identify anaphoric and cataphoric references. 4. Recognize cohesive devices showing cause and effect, comparison and contrast, and persuasion

C. Vocabulary D, Lecturer’s style [Other goals included Students will be able to devise a complex notetaking system, and Students will be able to present a coherent argument in small groups and seminar-type discussions.] Example performance objectives: A. 1.Indicate the cause-and-effect relationships in a 50-minute academic lecture by inserting an appropriate word or phrase in the blanks provided with 80 percent accuracy. … A. 3-4Indicate what the premise is in a 50-minute persuasive argument y underlining the key words or phrases in a 500-word summary with 80 percent accuracy.