Syllabus: Traditionally, the term syllabus has been used to refer to the form in which linguistic material is specified in a course or method. Inevitably, the term has been more closely associated with methods that are product-centered rather than with those that are process centered. Syllabuses and syllabus principles for Audio lingual, Structural-Situational, and communicative methods, as well as in ESP and text-based approaches to language program design, can be readily identified.