Syllabus Design

Syllabus Design David Nunan

Overview

Four fundamental questions that must be answered by any curriculum developer:

• 1.What educational purpose should a school seek to attain? • 2. 1.What educational experience can be provided that are likely to attain those purpose? • 3. How can the educational experiences be effectively organized? • 4.How can we determine whether these purpose have been attained?

The “Organic” Approach to Grammar. • Needs Analysis • a set of techniques and procedures , known as needs analysis, was developed to assist designers adopting such an approach. • Goal and objective Setting

Competence –Based Language Teaching CBLT • The Standard movement

Notional –Functional Syllabuses. Content –Based Syllabuses. Task-based Syllabuses.

An Integrated Approach to Syllabus Design.

• 1.Identify the general context and situations in which the learners will communicate. • 2.Specify the communicative events that the learners will engage in. • 3.List the key linguistic elements that learners will need in order to achieve the functional goals. • 4.equence and integrate the various skill elements identified in steps 3 and 4