Topic and task based syllabus

Types of Syllabus
1- Topic based Syllabus
2- Task based Syllabus

1. DESIGN

2. TOPIC vs Task

3. Topic Based Syllabus

4. Topic Based Syllabus: It is the type of syllabus that is organized around themes, topics, are other units of particular content. * Topic based syllabus selects language, vocabulary, language functions etc

5. * The topics are selected by the textbook authors on the basis of his or her sense of importance of the topics or themes for the learner's to whom the text is designed. (Ex: crime terrorism. Nuclear disaster, EFL students etc )

6. * It also suggest relevant tasks and interactive activities. This type of syllabus helps learners to acquire language through the study of series of relevant topics.

7. Goal: Its goal is to teach specific information and content using the language that learners are learning * Content based syllabus certainly give learners a lot of exposure of language

8. Advantages: * they address learners need * they motivate learners * Autonomous learning is there * it is more learner centered

9. Disadvantages: * It doesn't focus on two key questions 1. What content? 2. How much content? * Syllabus that is merely a list of topics.

10. E.g. of Topic Based Syllabus: If the topic is animal . Teacher will let learner's know about animals and will tell names of animals then in other phase teacher gives learner different vocabulary like( long tail, fur, cold blooded and warm blooded animals etc ) and ask them to compare them.

11. Hudelson describes four basic principals of learning and language learning that are embedded in a topic based approach 1: young learners are in the concrete operational stage of cognitive development this means they learn through experiences 2: the level of knowing or learning in a group 3: figuring out how language work in different conexts 4: socual interaction results in the acquisition of different elements of language.

12. Task Based Syllabus

13. Task: * Activities where the target language is used by the learner for a communicative purpose (goal) in order to achieve an outcome. (Willis 1996a:23) * A piece of classroom work which involves learners in comprehending, manipulating, producing or interacting in the target language while their attention is principally focused on meaning rather than form. ( Nunan 1989:10)

14. T ask Based syllabus: * It is based on task-based learning, an approach where learners carry out tasks such as solving a problem or planning an activity.

15. * Task-based approaches recognize that learning is controlled by internal processes and pass through developmental stages. * L earners learn by actively using language.

16. GOAL: To provide the conditions for learners’ language abilities to develop naturally. (Foster 1999:69)

17. Advantages: * Real world communication * Learner is creative * Interaction among students * Efficient for ESP * Encourages language use

18. E.g. of Task Based Syllabus: If the objective is to make students be able to learn English in everyday context, teacher can bring as many everyday tasks and ask different students to come up and perform the tasks.

19. Can I have two volunteers who can come forward?

20. Procedure: 1.   Conduct a needs analysis to obtain an inventory of the target tasks 2.   Classify the target tasks into task types 3.   Derives pedagogical tasks from the task types 4.   Select and sequence the pedagogical tasks to form a task syllabus. (Long 1985: 91)

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