Selecting and grading product orientated syllabus
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This document discusses product-oriented or grammatical syllabuses. It explains that product-oriented syllabuses focus on the knowledge and skills learners should gain through instruction. They are based on grammatical structures and organize language learning around the sequencing of grammatical items from simple to complex. The document also discusses different approaches to selecting and grading grammatical structures in a syllabus and compares analytic and synthetic methods.
Selecting and grading product orientated syllabus
- 1. Presented by Noveera Jaffar
- 2. Product-oriented Syllabus Are those in which the focus is on the knowledge and skills which learners should gain as a result of instruction. Product-oriented syllabus are based on Grammatical structures. A structural syllabuses are also known as a grammatical syllabuses . It is one of the most traditional methods used in course design.
- 3. Selecting and grading of syllabus Grammatical syllabus : it organizes around grammatical items. In developing a grammatical syllabus, the syllabus planners seek to solve the following problems: To select sufficient patterns to support the amount of teaching time available. To arrange items into a sequence that facilitates learning To identify a productive range of grammatical items that will allow for the development of basic communicative skills.
- 4. . s Conti…. Product-oriented syllabuses can be analytically or synthetically selected. In a synthetic language teaching strategy language is taught bit by bit thus gradually making one unified whole. This strategy was connected with acquiring of grammatical structures. In an analytic syllabus the aim is the communicative structures with different degrees of difficulty.
- 5. Conti….. The truth is that form and function should be studied together, not in isolation. The well-known functional-notional syllabus is presented as a synthetic syllabus (see Widdowson 1979). With analythic syllabuses the stress is on situations, topics & themes.
- 6. Conti…. It is a type A syllabus. Selection and gradation is Based on the complexity and simplicity of grammatical items. The teacher regards the items from the point of view of levels or stages. For example, beginning, intermediate, advanced, or grades, 1,2,3, etc.
- 7. Conti… From simple grammar structures to complex ones. Example A grammatical syllabus may start with the present simple, then the present continuous, then the past simple, and so on. 1. Present simple and continuous. 2. Present simple. 3. Past simple and continuous. 4. Expressing requests and offers. 5. Future time - will/going to. 6. Describing people and places. 7. Present perfect simple.
- 8. Conti….. The syllabus may use either Audio- lingual Method or Grammar- Translation Method, or a combination of the two or an eclectic approach. Whichever he uses, the content of the syllabus is determined by giving top priority to teaching the grammar or structure of the language
- 9. Conti…… The designer of a product syllabus might take a list of grammatical structures or a list of functions as his/her starting point for design, or s/he might decide to use a wordlist, or alternatively, a mixture of all these elements may be used. What is important is that they all take some form of linguistic content as a basis for designing the syllabus (such syllabuses are also described as content syllabuses Students are graded according to their ability.
- 10. Nunan, D. (1988). Syllabus design. Oxford University Press. Widdowson, H. G. (1979). Models and fictions. Applied Linguistics, 1, 165.