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Curriculum Development and Planning

6.9 Glossary - Formative evaluation

		Formative evaluation looks at the learners’ ongoing development and improvement during a course. The evaluator finds out what works well and what doesn’t work well and improves areas of concerns.

1. Communicative competence	23. Peer observation
2. Communicative functions	24. Process evaluation
3. Curriculum development	25. Product evaluation
4. Deductive learning	26. Proforma
5. Discourse competence	27. Qualitative data
6. Drills	28. Quantitative data
7. Evaluation	29. Scheme of work
8. Formal learning	30. SENDA
9. Formative evaluation	31. Semantico-grammar
10. Grammar	32. Sociolinguistic competence
11. Grammatical competence	33. Strategic competence
12. Grammatical syllabus	34. Student – student interaction
13. Holistic approach	35. Student – teacher interaction
14. Inductive learning	36. Student – centred approach
15. Informal learning	37. Summative evaluation
16. Learning objectives	38. Surrender value
17. Learning outcomes	39. Syllabus
18. Lexicon	40. Task-based syllabus
19. Lexical syllabus	41. Teacher – student interaction
20. Linguistics	42. Teacher – teacher interaction
21. Needs analysis	43. Topic-based syllabus
22. Notional-functional syllabus	44. Utterances

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