SELECTING AND GRADING CONTENT
SELECTING GRAMMATICAL COMPONENT
Synthetic syllabus concerned with structure and what should be taught to learners.
Analytic syllabus focus on language acquisition and how to facilitate language learning.
Selecting functional and notional components
Function
Notion
The conceptual meanings expressed through language
general concepts such as, “time, space, cause and effect”
Communicative purposes for which we use language
more social concepts such as, “invitation, suggestion and refusal.”
Relating grammatical, functional, and notional components
Although there are certain components which are consistently link together, but the link between grammatical, functional and notional components are not entirely predictable.
Many of the course book attempts to integrate topical and notional elements as well as grammatical and functional elements.
Grading Content
Frequency
Range
Availability
Learnability
Coverage
Teachbility
How many different meanings a word or an item can be used.
How far an item is convenient to teach.
How often a certain item or word is used.
In what different contexts a word or an item can convey.
How far an item is easy to learn.
How far and item is easy to teach
GROUPING
The system of the language
its structure
Lexical grouping
Grammatical grouping
Phonetic grouping
Semantic grouping
Structure grouping