lunes, 2 de mayo de 2011

Syllabus

It is an instrument in which are specified the goals, unitsprerequisites, materials and general data about the course. It serves to plan the class along  a determined  time and set goals to achieve for different types of difficulty of the course.  


Some characteristics about the syllabus are: 

  1. Time schedule: It helps to keep a order in which content is presented, developed and evaluated.
  2. Materials:  it refers to the different types of materials that will be used in theclassroom such as books, cds, etc.
  3. Objetives: Are the skills that students sholud be able to handle after have ended the course 
  4. Basic information: these are details of the establishment and teacher contacts.




There are 10 different types of syllabuses.

1. Grammatical - deals with grammatical structures.
2. Lexical - lists lexical items.
3. Grammatical-lexical - a mixture of the grammatical and lexical syllabuses.
4. Situational - deal with real-life situations.
5. Topic-based - are based on different topics.
6. Notional - language concepts and vocabulary.
7. Functional-notional - deal with things we can do with language.
8. Mixed - mixture of the previous syllabuses.
9. Procedural - specifies learning tasks.
10. Process - is modified over time.





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