Situation Analysis

Situation Analysis in English Language Teaching Curriculum Development

The Nature of Situation Analysis 

Situation analysis is an analysis of factors in the context of a planned or present curriculum project that is made in order to assess their potential impact on the project. These factors may be political, social, economic, or institutional. Situation analysis complements the information gathered during needs analysis.

The Importance of Needs Analysis

Why needs analysis is needed in curriculum development?

As I said before, needs analysis belongs to one of procedures in the language curriculum development. In addition, I had explained about what need analysis is. In this writing, I am pouring my thought about the reason of the importance of needs analysis. In this case I have two opinions:

1. The needs analysis decides what kinds of curriculum development will be made either revising or renewing curriculum. By knowing need analysis, the teacher will have a perspective about what situation analysis and goal or objectives of the curriculum. It also means that need analysis is the source of information which is gathered from the learners’. In addition, this information is used to make the curriculum and if there is no need analysis, so the curriculum cannot be made because it doesn't have the source of learners’ data. Even if it is possible, the study will not go forward accordance with the aim and objective.

The Meaning of Curriculum

The Meaning of Curriculum 

Curriculum is an educational program which states (1) the educational purpose of the program, (2) the content, (3) teaching procedures and learning experiences which will be necessary to achieve the purpose, and (4) some means of assessing whether or not the educational ends have been achieved. On the other hand,

Language Curriculum Development Concept

What language curriculum development concept is?

The concept of language curriculum development involves wide range of planning and implementation processes in developing or renewing new curriculum. Developing curriculum is defined as revising the old curriculum with the new curriculum without changing the former of curriculum's shape. Then, renewing curriculum means making a new curriculum by replacing the old curriculum with the new one. In Indonesia, the changing of curriculum had happened four times in 1975, 1984, 1996, and 2006. 

To make it clear, there is an example referring to the developing curriculum terminology. 

A (as old curriculum) and B (as new curriculum) 

By using development of curriculum, both A and B are merged into AB. Then, AB has the curriculum characteristic of the both A and B. 

Curriculum A is replaced with Curriculum B to renew curriculum. B does not posses the characteristic of A curriculum. 

There are seven processes/ procedures/ steps of the development curriculum as following: