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English Language Syllabuses - Coggle Diagram
English Language Syllabuses
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Syllabus
Richards (2001) defines a syllabus as
"A specification of the content of a course of instruction which lists what will be taught and tested."
Syllabus have passed through constant changes because of innovations in paradigms of language teaching methodology
Types of syllabus
Process Oriented
definition
Focus is on the
Pedagogic process
e.g
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Task Based Syllabus
Activities with non-instructional purposes.
tasks are a way of bringing the real world into the classroom.
Content-Based Syllabus
focus on
content or information of the language
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Relational Syllabus
Based on items like notional relations such as cause-effect; discourse relations, such as question-reply; or clause structure.. etc.
Communicative Syllabus
centred around
includes
Description of the objectices of foreign language courses.
The situations in which learners might typically need to use a foreign language
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The topics learners might need to talk about
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The functions learners needed language for
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The notions made use of in communication
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The vocabulary and grammar needed.
Product Oriented
definition
Focus on the
result
, like skills learned by students.
e.g.
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Situational Syllabus
The contents are organized according to
situations
in which a particular language is likely to be employed.
Concrete
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Mythical
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Limbo
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Lexical Syllabus
Focused on
Vocabulary and Lexical units
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Structural Syllabus
Grammatical structures graded according to complexity
synthetic traditional syllabus
The aquisition is a process of gradual accumulation of the parts until the whole structures of the language has been built up.
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Notional Syllabus
its focus is in the
semantic content
of the target language.
Students must learn to express different types of meanings.
Use language Communicatively.
Functional/Notional Syllabus
contents are related to
The
notions
or concepts the learners need to talk about (what meanings people wanted to convey).
The functional purposes for which language is used (what people wanted to do with the language):
functions
.
The situations in which language would be used.
The roles the learners mught possibly play.
English for specific purposes (ESP)
Topic-Based Syllabus
contents are built around certain topics
for example: Sports, Travel, Advertising, Food,etc
Curriculum
According to Robertson (cited in Yalden,1987)
Curriculum includes: goals, objectives, content, processes, resources and means of evaluation
