SYLLABUS

SYLLABUS

1. Definition

   • suggests a different perspective implying that syllabuses are "social constructions, produced interdependently in classrooms by teachers and learners

2. Syllabus Gramatical

   • It focuses on grammar rules and structures
     • students learn from the simpler to more complex structures and they may learn the structures more easily

3. Syllabus nocional-funcional

   • collection of the functions or the notions that are performed when the language is used
     • notional-functional syllabus
       • That students learn how to use the target language to express their own ideas

4. Syllabus situacional

   • The teacher makes a list of communication situations that will take place (the weather, food and drinks, family life, free time activities and so on

5. A skill-based syllabus

   • This syllabus is based on the development of the language skills (listening, reading, writing and speaking) using the target language

6. A task-based syllabus

   • The content of language teaching includes a series of purposeful tasks that language learners need to perform

7. A content-based syllabus

   • The primary purpose of instruction is to teach some content or information using the language that the students are also learning, in other words, the learners use the foreign language to study other subjects such as: Science, Maths, Biology, etc