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Nakamura, Yoshihiro – 1985
Many teachers feel that the primary goal of language education is the development of communicative rather than linguistic competence. This shift in focus has affected syllabus design. However, no single syllabus appears satisfactory by itself. The grammatical syllabus is effective to instill in learners automatic production of accurate structural…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Communicative Competence (Languages), Course Content, Course Objectives
Davis, James J. – 1995
An adult continuing education course in introductory Spanish is described. In planning the course, special attention was given to making course objectives realistic for the target population; rather than undertake a traditional college-level syllabus, academic and grammar-oriented in nature, the course was designed to provide students with basic…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Classroom Techniques, Continuing Education, Course Content
Krahnke, Karl – 1987
An examination of foreign language syllabus design reviews current literature on six syllabus types and discusses the process of choosing and integrating syllabi for classroom use. The six syllabus types are structural, notional-functional, situational, skill-based, task-based, and content-based, characterized as differing by increasing attention…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Course Content, Course Descriptions, Course Organization