Chapter 4: Process-Oriented Syllabus

Content Syllabus

Syllabus Design & Methodology

Grading Task

The Natural Approach

Task-based Syllabus

Procedural Syllabus

Information-gap activity

Reasoning-gap activity

Opinion-gap acivity

Task Specification

The product students are to formulate

the operations that are required to generate the product

the resources available to the student to generate the product

Teachers need to consider

Subject Matter

Materials

Activities

Goals

Abilities, needs and interests

Social and cultural context

Procedure of Developing

Classify

Derive

Conduct

Select and Sequence

the teaching of content or information in the language being learned with little or no direct to teach the language itself separately from the content being taught

A language teaching approach which claims that language learning is a reproduction of the way humans naturally acquire their native language

Syllabus

Methodology

Functional-notional Syllabus

Structural Syllabus

Focus on the changing process of learning and the potential of the classroom

Level 2: Productive

Level 3: Interactive

Level 1: Processing