Types of Syllabus

Types of Syllabus

1. TASK-BASED SYLLABUS

   • TEACHERS´PURPOSES
     • The teachers have to use learners' real-life needs and activities as learning experiences for to design their work materials.
     • Teachers will always have to take into account the previous knowledge of his students.
   • STUDENTS´PURPOSES
     • Learners carry out tasks such as solving a problem or planning an activity.
     • The knowledge acquired by students about the language come out of the linguistic demands of the activity or problem planted.

2. SITUATIONAL AND THEMATIC SYLLABUS

   • STUDENTS´PURPOSES
     • The students product must be valued taking into a analyse of their behaviours on specific situations.
     • It enables the learners to behave appropriately in various contexts.
   • TEACHERS´PURPOSES
     • Teachers have to base his study plan under argument is that language is always used in a social context settings.

3. GRAMMAR AND STRUCTURAL SYLLABUS

   • TEACHERS´ PURPOSES
     • Teachers have to design their work materials with the intention that the product is oriented on grammatical structures graded according to students' complexity.
     • Teachers base their study plan on the grammatical structures of a language.
   • STUDENTS´PURPOSES
     • Learners should not usually exposed to more difficult structures than the ones they are learning.
     • Learners learn grammatical structures in a sequence that reflects their complexity in many artificial contexts for practice.

4. SKILLED-BASED SYLLABUS

   • STUDENTS´PURPOSES
     • Students can develop their communicative competence using different resources.
     • The student becomes aware of which macro-skill of a target language he or she wants to strengthen and focuses on positive actions that help achieve this goal.
   • TEACHERS´PURPOSES
     • Teacher make a list of language skills that students need to acquire.
     • Teachers must teach students strategies to develop and improve the macro skills of a language.

5. CONTENT-BASED SYLLABUS

   • TEACHERS´PURPOSES
     • The topics choice for the teacher has to a subject of interest to their students.
     • It is important that at the end of each activity, the teachers make a feedback with the student work groups.
   • STUDENTS ´URPOSES
     • students are focused on learning about something. This could be anything that interests them. They learn about this subject using the language they are trying to learn, rather than their native language
     • Students develop skills as: Take information from different sources, re-evaluating and restructuring that information can help students to develop very valuable thinking skills that can then be transferred to other subjects.

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