Listen to Your Heart:
Music and Diverstity EFL Workshop
There is nothing inherently frightening about what we don't know. If we feel afraid, it isn't what we don't know that frightens us, it's what we think we do know...If we take difference and diversity as reasons for fear and occasions for trouble, it's because we've learned to think about them in ways that make for fear and trouble.
- Allan Johnson, 2006, from Privilege, Power, and Difference
This page is an overview of the instructional design process for this course. Each stage played an important role in producing a course that was effective, appropriate, beneficial and enjoyable for the learners and other stakeholders. Although each stage may appear to be a separate piece of work, there was constant interaction between development, analysis and evaluation in all stages. Each stage affected and was influenced by preceding and subsequent steps. The design of this course was a fluid, overlapping and flexible process.
Problem Need Statement
In order to identify an instructional gap, the current program was analyzed through observations and discussions with instructors and students. Gaps related to English listening skills, diversity and multiculturalism were identified and incorporated into a problem need statement.
Audience Analysis
Surveys and interviews were conducted with the potential learners/participants of the workshop in order to ensure that a beneficial and appropriate course would be designed. The results were analyzed and considered when developing the course objectives, assessments and content.
Assessments
Using the results of the audience analysis, achievable and beneficial objectives were designed. The potential participants expressed a strong desire to include English speaking practice. Thus the objectives include English listening and speaking skills as well as addressing issues of diversity.
Course Content
The content, activities and materials in the course are centered around the use of popular music as a tool for practicing English speaking and listening skills as well as a platform for discussing and understanding issues of diversity and multiculturalism.
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The course objectives were analyzed in order to produce logical and useful assessments. As one of the main goals of the course is to increase motivation and confidence, most of the assessments in the course are informal. This was done in order to reduce stress and competition.
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Evaluation Plan
A thorough plan of formative and summative evaluations of the program will be administered throughout the first and second implementations of this course. Expert reviews, small group evaluation, peer observations, learner surveys and pre- and post-tests will be used.
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Implementation
