1. Environment Analysis Presented by: Fatma Sirajuddin Hafez Supervised by: Prof. Antar Abdellah

2. Environment Analysis ( Tessmer,1990) involves looking at the factors that will have a strong effect on decisions about the goals of the course These factors include: Teachers Situation Learners

3. The importance of a factor depends on: 1- whether the course will still be useful if the factor is not taken into account. 2- how large and pervasive the effect of the factor on the course.

4. An Example of Environment Analysis A course for young Japanese aged from 6-9 years old who lived in English speaking countries.

5. Environment constraints When designing a course, the table can be used as a checklist to help sort out the few that will be given most attention in a particular piece of curriculum design.

6. Environment constraints There are some general constraints related to the learner, teacher and situation. Others are some particular constraints belong to the interests, purposes, goals, the language, time, materials and so on. Moreover, there are some effects on curriculum design. See Table 2.1

7. Policy: 1-Who are the learners? 2-Who are the teachers? 3-Why is the program necessary? 4-Where will the program be implemented? 5-How it will be implemented? Patterns of language use in society Political & National context Group& individual attitudes The language setting Environment constraints

8. The Constraint of Time Examining the local environment The effect of the constraint on the design of the course Looking at the previous research

9. Understanding the Constraints To understand a constraint fully, Examine the nature of the constraint by having a look at the previous research including the time available, cultural background, the effect of the first language on language learning & special purposes.

10. Steps in Environment Analysis The steps in environment analysis can be as follows. 1- Brainstorm and then systematically consider the range of environment and factors that will affect the course. 2- Choose the most important factors (no more than five) and rank them, putting the most important first. 3- Decide what information you need to fully take account of the factor. The information can come from investigation of the environment and from research and theory. 4- Consider the effects of each factor on the design of the course. 5- Go through steps 1, 2, 3, and 4 again.

11. Tasks Task I : Brainstorm to create a list of constraints that may significantly affect the design of courses. Task II : Examine your teaching environment. Task III : Discuss the EFL teaching environment in two different countries.

12. Good bye