Formulating ‘principles of procedure’ for the foreign language classroom: a framework for process model language curricula

Towards a Knowledge-rich Curriculum

“…It ensures the delivery of educational experiences in which knowledge is considered the materials for thinking (the food for thought), and simultaneously, the subject to explore and the goal to gain (McKernan, 2008). Scholars so far have articulated a process-based sequence in curriculum design which engages students' prior knowledge background and experience, integrates declarative knowledge with underlying conceptual frameworks, and carries out explicit teaching of meta-cognitive learning strategies (Bransford, Brown, & Cocking, 2000;Erickson, 2002;Villacañas de Castro, 2016).…”