From curriculum to syllabus design: The different stages to design a programme 
What stages are followed in designing a course? 
:
Brown (1995)
Structural: Grammatical and Phonological stuctures
Situational: Principlesequenced
Topical: Principle-sequeced
Functional: principlesequenced by some sense of chronology or usefulness of
each function
Notional: of organizationsequenced by some sense of chronology or usefulness of
each notion
Skills: Such as listening for gist
Task: Task or activity-based categories
Study Program 
The Linear Format:: is adopted for discrete element content, particularly grammar or
structures
The Modular Format: Academic guiance unit are integrated
The cyclical format: Allows teachers and students to work on the same topic
The Matrix Format : Flexibility in the topics of the table of contents in random order.
The story-line format : is basically a narrative
Organizing the course 
.
Unit Content
Sequencing the units
Determining
Organizing Principle.
Identifying the course units based
Language test: 
Based on program goals and objetives test development
Compare the relative performance of student
Materials 
Decisions based on the need of students
The tests, teaching and ealuation of the program.
Formative: Improving ongoing programs.
Summative determination of tehe effects af a program.
Evaluation. 
Decide whether a programme has had the intended effect
Beretta (op. cit; 276) gives a list of purposes of evaluation. Some of those
mentioned which are relevant to this paper are the following:
To decide whether a programme has had the intended effect
To identify what effect a programme has had
To justify future courses of action
To identify areas for improvement in an ongoing programme
Conclusion
One of the first things clarified is that ‘syllabus’ refers to the content or
subject matter of an individual subject, whereas ‘curriculum’ refers to the totality of
content to be taught and aims to be realized within one school or educational
system.
Reference: Nuñez, I. Bodegas. From curriculum to syllabus design: The different stages to design a programme. file:///C:/Users/princ/Downloads/1C_Nunez_y_Bodegas_Irma_Dolores_1.pdf