Module 13
ESP Syllabus
What’s inside
• Bases for language syllabus: content, skill,
method
• Criteria to organize syllabus
• Which syllabus to choose
Bases for language syllabus: content,
skill, method
Bases for Language
Syllabuses
PROCESS
CONTENT
FORM
structural
focus
PROCESS
ends-driven
TOPIC
Informational
focus
LANGUAGE
Receptive/
Productive
Structural
analytic
SITUATION
SKILL
FUNCTIONAL
Notional/functio
nal focus
contextual focus
Functional-analytic
Means-driven
LEARNING
Skill
acquisition
focus
METHOD
PROCESS PROCEDURAL
Learning
focus
Learnerled
Non analytic
Cognitive
focus Taskbased
Content-based syllabus
Product Syllabus
Process syllabus
Types of syllabus
• Content-based syllabuses: language form,
language notion, language function
• Content-based syllabuses: situation, topic
• Skill-based syllabuses
• Method-based syllabuses: processes
• Method-based syllabuses: tasks
Which syllabus to choose?
Swan (323): “the real issue is not which syllabus to
put first. It is how to integrate eight or so
syllabuses (functional, notional, situational, topic,
phonological, lexical, structural, skills) into a
sensible teaching programme.”
Course design
Course design involves putting the
theoretical decisions about objectives and
syllabus into a context.
Context:
• Constraints (eg. Political factor government attitude, the
status of English, etc.)
• ESP and language planning: ‘it is the planning of
deliberate changes in the form or the use of a language,
typically at government level.
• Management issues: (eg. timing and timetable of
courses, the location, the nature of classrooms, number
and capabilities of teachers involved, etc)
Module 14
Presentation
What’s Inside
• Designing a syllabus
• Students’ presentation
• Evaluation
• The materials:
Presentation of a syllabus based on a
requirement of a job.
• Consider:
1. The type of job of your students
2. Conduct a need analysis based on your
judgment.
3. Design a syllabus that match your
students’ needs
4. Make an appropriate assessment material
5. Conduct role play and simulations
6. Provide Evaluation based on the
presentation