The Role of Women in Maintaining or Resisting Patriarchy in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice

Abstract

The current study aims at investigating the influence of specifying the learning objectives on effective materials’ design through comparing university teachers and Middle/Secondary school teachers. Teachers at the department of English tend to design their lessons based on the outline of the syllabus provided b y the administration. Eventually, they do not make lesson plans in which the learning objectives are specified in a written form. Hence, we hypothesize that if University teachers specify their educational objectives materials’ design would be effective. To inquire about this issue, a questionnaire was used for both samples. The first one is University teachers’ questionnaire, which seeks to check teachers’ views about the necessity of designing lesson plans and establishing learning objectives for every part of the lesson. The second one is Middle and Secondary school teachers’ questionnaire. It aims to uncover whether lesson plans and objectives are necessary elements that help in selecting and structuring the content to be taught. After that, the results obtained from both questionnaires were corroborated. The results of the questionnaire yielded the conclusion that most University teachers are aware of the crucial role of setting the objectives but they just state them orally. Whereas, Middle and Secondary school teachers believe that the learning objectives facilitate the process of designing effective teaching materials. Consequently, we highly recommend writing the objectives by university teachers and using at least a workbook. Within this scope, a checklist was designed to be used by teachers to assess the extent to which they reach their educational goals.