Syllabus Types in Coursebooks

Syllabus Types in Coursebooks

1. Grammatical or Structural

   • Syllabus input selected and graded according to grammatical notions
   • The principal purpose of language teaching is to help learners´to crack code

2. Situational

   • Presents a set of everyday situations that learners could be expected to find themselves

3. Funtional-Notional

   • Highlights what people do through language
   • Synthetic view of an organizing principle

4. Topic_Based

   • Uses topics or themes as its starting point.
   • Dosen´t suppose the meta-linguistic awareness inherent in structural or funtional syllabus types

5. Process Syllabus

   • Specify not only the result of instruction- as in product oriented syllabi,
   • Specify learning tasks and activities through which these outcomes are to be brought about

6. Procedural Syllabi and Task-based Syllabi

   • Is based on the belief that both linguistic and communicative competnece is acquieredthrough engagement with meaning
   • Includes treatment of grading and secuencing of tasks