Grammar structural syllabus

Grammar structural syllabus

1. Syllabus design is thought to be based essentially on a decision about the units of a classroom activity, and the sequence in which they are to be performed. Syllabi can be divided into two different types

   • Product oriented syllabi
   • Process oriente Syllabi
   • Brown 1995 lists seven basic syllabus types
     • Structural, situational, topical, functional, notional, skill based and task based and these can be linked to specific approaches and methods

2. Structural Syllabi: one of the most common types of syllabi and still today we can see the contents pages of many course books set out according to grammatical items

3. Situational syllabus: the situational model will comprise units indicating specific situations Ur 2000 defines it as a syllabus in which the contents are organized according to situations in which certain language is likely to be employed.

4. Lexical syllabus the cornerstone of this type of syllabus is vocabulary, lexical syllabuses build up vocabulary areas based on a detailed analysis of high frequency vocabulary and phrases

5. The notional syllabus as its focus the semantic content of the target language students must learn to express different types of meanings.

6. Topic based syllabus this syllabus is built around certain topics and themes, such as travel drugs religious persuasion advertising modern architecture, sports and so on.

7. Task based syllabus task meaning any assignment or activity you must do for some sort of reward even just a learning reward. task based syllabus is designed with the concept that while the conscious mind is working out some of the meaning content some subconscious prt of the mind perceives. three types of task based syllabus

   • The procedural syllabus
   • Process syllabus
   • Skill based syllabus

8. The content based syllabus: is the teaching of content or information with little effort to teach the language itself

9. The relational syllabus is based on items like national relations such as cause and effect or question reply

10. the communicative syllabus it is a syllabus which specifies the semantic grammatical categories and the categories of communicative function that learners need to express