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