SYLLABUS - CHARACTERISTICS

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•Comprehensive: List what is to be taught

•Content items or processes

•Ordered / Sequenced

•Explicit objectives

•Time schedule

•Approach or methodology

•Recommended materials

•Public document

Product-oriented syllabusesSynthetic syllabus planning

(Wilkins, 1976)

•Parts of language are taught separately, step by step.•Acquisition is a gradual accumulation of parts.•Generally applied to product-oriented syllabi.

Product-oriented syllabuses Analytic syllabus planning

(Wilkins, 1975)

• Organized in terms of purposes• Language performance necessary• Not grammatical but coomunicative purposes• Experiential rather than linguistic content• Language is not seen as a subject• Grammar is not excluded

Product-oriented syllabuses Grammatical Syllabuses

• Graded according to grammar notions• Simplicity and complexity • Sequence based on pre-requisite learning• Language consists of rules• Transfer of internalized formal aspects to

communicative situations• Criticism: Form vs. function

Product-oriented syllabusesFunctional-notional syllabuses

• Students and their purposes as the center of the curriculum

• Realistic tasks• Real-world language• Intrinsic motivation• Grammar, topics, and culture together

Process-oriented syllabusesProcedural and task-based syllabuses

• Organized around tasks, rather than grammar

• Specification of tasks and activities• Consider product, operations and

resources

Process-oriented syllabusesContent syllabuses

• Experiential context derived from a subject area

• Facilitate learning nor merely through language but with language

• No balance Accuracy-Fluency

Process-oriented syllabusesThe Natural Approach

• Comprehension precedes production• Production emerges• Acquisition vs. Learning activities• The affective filter is lowered• Learning goals: personal communication

and academic learning skills

TEACHING CURRICULUM MODEL

Evaluation Feedback Needs analysis

Goal identification

Objetive setting

Content selection

Learning activities- tasks

selection

Materials resourcers selection

Implementation of curriculum