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Batstone, Rob – ELT Journal, 1988
Compares Organizing Principle, multi-syllabus, and modular approaches to second language course design and suggests a modular course design that offers the greatest flexibility for both the instructor and for future course planning by allowing the instructor to link various elements of this approach according to methodology and student needs.…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Course Organization, Curriculum Design, Instructional Innovation
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
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