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