Teacher Beware!

Abstract

With the new K.B.S.M. syllabus now in operation and other new syllabuses in the pipe-line, it might be appropriate to consider some of the techniques which course designers urge teachers to use when presenting items to the learner. These techniques may be described as the teacher's friends, but a closer scrutiny of their value, often suggests that they are not so much friends, but false friends - so teacher beware!

Any course in English allows learners to come into contact with certain parts of the English language. These are the parts chosen by the course designer who organizes them in a particular way to form his course which will later be presented to the learner by the teacher. The process may be shown as follows: