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H G Widdowson Article Review
H G Widdowson Article Review
If we take these fundamentals for granted for both position-oriented learning and person-oriented
learning syllabuses, then we won’t be able to ignore neither the educational elements with the future
role issue nor the pedagogic elements with the individual development issue. Because, extra-
pedagogical factors come to interact with learner’s experience to affect teacher and learner’s
perception of their needs. The strongest of these factors relate to socio-economic circumstances of
the learners. Since the provision of relief to these factors are not within the competence of the
teachers either within the classroom, as part of the curriculum or inclusive in the reaching approach,
method or strategy, a neglect of the effect and importance of these factors will adversely affect the
effectiveness or success of the language teaching design or strategy eventually produced from
learner’s needs assessment.
Conclusion:
Therefore, I unreservedly support the proposal of Widdowson that as it is impossible to set up a
universal set of attitudes, dispositions, and behaviors for good language learner and design
syllabuses accordingly, therefore, the pedagogic factors in syllabus design should better focus on the
methodology part of it and reform and reshape as per the other dominating educational factors e.g.
political and socio-cultural aim of learning, educational attitudes as reflected in the attitudes and
dispositions of local learners in relation to their socio-economic circumstances etc.