PROCESS AND PRODUCT OBJECTIVES

PROCESS AND PRODUCT
OBJECTIVES

REAL WORLD OBJECTIVE

• A real world objective describe a task which
learners might wish to carry out outside the
classroom.

• Example:

• In a shop, supermarket, or department store, learners will ask
for the price of a given items or items. Questions will be
comprehensible to shop assistants who are unused to
dealing with non-native speakers.

PEDAGOGICAL OBJECTIVE

• A pedagogical objective is one which describes a
task which the learner might be required to carry
out inside the classroom

• Example:

• The learner will listen to a conversation between a shopper
and a shop assistant and will identify which of three
shopping lists belongs to the shopper in question.

Real world objective Pedagogical objective

Carry out outside the Carry out inside the
classroom classroom

PRODUCT OBJECTIVE AND PROCESS
OBJECTIVE

• product objectives is objectives which describes
what learners will be able to do as a result of
instruction

• The process objectives are those which describe
activities design to develop the skills needed to
carry out the product objectives

PRODUCT OBJECTIVE AND PROCESS
OBJECTIVE CONT.

Considered the example of the motor mechanics undertaking
study in connection with his trade, who might need, among
other things, to follow a lecture on the structure and function of
carburettors.

A product objective for a course for motor mechanics
might read as follows:

• The learner will demonstrate his knowledge of the parts of a
carburettor by listening to five minutes lecture on the
subject and labelling a diagram. All parts to be correctly
labelled.

PRODUCT OBJECTIVE AND PROCESS
OBJECTIVE CONT.

• the problems with such objectives is that they give
no guidance as to how the objective is to be
achieved.

• The teacher might make learners perform the
terminal task repeatedly in class until they are able
to perform it with the required degree of skill.