PLANS AND

PROGRAMMES
A good number of people who are professionally involved in language teaching will at one time or
another in their lives have the responsibility of producing a syllabus or part of one.

Syllabus :

It is centrally a statement of content , stating what a programme will cover.

What is the difference between a syllabus and a curriculum?

Syllabus : Curriculum:

Tends to refer to the content of just Totality of content to be taught and aims
one subject area . to be realized within one school or
educational system .
 THE STRUCTURAL SYLLABUS
• It’s main organization is in terms of structures. Each unit focuses on a number of grammatical structures.

• In this type of syllabus, the main organizing principle is according to language structure.

ROUGH GUIDE TO SYLLABUS DESIGN CRITERIA

SIMPLICITY CRITERION SEQUENCING OR GROUPING FREQUENCY

Is moving from simple to Putting things together that ‘go’ Teaching the most
more complex structures. together frequently used forms first.

UTILITY TEACHABILITY
Teaching the most useful Teaching structures that are easy to convey before ones that are
things first. difficult to teach than others.
 NOTIONAL/ FUNCTIONAL SYLLABUSES

NEEDS ANALYSIS LSP PROGRAMMES AND N/F TENOR PROGRAMMES AND N/F
We shall look more Teaching involves a It is includes all general
carefully into the marriage of two courses, where the learnes
machinery of the disciplines- a language and have divergent reasons for
functional syllabus a subject área. learning.
N/F FOR GENERAL AND SPECIFIC PROGRAMMES
Teach grammar, using a structural syllabu

Teach language use activing the structures taught at Stage 1. Use a functional syllabus.

N/F teaching was able to add a communicative dimensión to their knowledge to ‘active’
this knowledge so that it could be used for doing things with language
 THE MULTIDIMENSIONAL
SYLLABUS
They are more often hybrids or mixtures.

The basis of the multidimensional syllabus is that it has more than

one “unit of organization”

There are two main ways these syllabuses can be produced :

• T-Level: You can shift the focus at different points in the

course.

• The second way is very common nowadays. It is to have more

than one focus operating in each part of the course
TECHNOLOGY- ASSISTED COURSES

A VIRTUAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENT THE INTERNET

Computers, emails, the internet- evokes quite It is powerful is because it can make a world of
different reactions in people. resources available to an individual sitting one small
room.

EMAIL
It is enables people from around the world to cummunicate
instantly. It allows for rapid interaction, learner to learner or
learner to teacher.
CONCLUSION

• Syllabuses once could be short, simple documents, listing

what structures would be taught, in what order.

• Nowadays, the are likely to be based on large-scale

syllabus inventories with many different sorts of list.

• Syllabus design has come an interest in the how of

language teaching in methodology.