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Materials and Planning - Unit 1 How can I design
a syllabus
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Introduction
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本单元将会讲到在设计教学大纲时应该注意的一些重要问题。教师应该在结合国家制定的教学大纲和孩子的学习需求的基础上，制定自己的课程提纲。
(本单元的Flash课件请参见www.in2english.com.cn/teaching/) |
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Introduction
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What is a syllabus? What is
included in it? What types of syllabus are there? What is the purpose of
a syllabus? How can it help us? Let's have a look. |
| 1. What is a syllabus? |
· A syllabus is simply a list of what learners
will learn in a school semester or a school year. Usually, one or more teachers
in a school design it for each year group.
· They design the syllabus after looking at the aims and standards of the
curriculum, and at the needs of the children in their classes.
· A syllabus is NOT the same as the coursebook, as the teacher or school
may want to design a syllabus to reflect the strengths and weaknesses of
their own learners.
· The syllabus can be written in English or Chinese, and can be made available
to children, parents and teachers. |
| 2. What is in a syllabus? |
· A syllabus will usually include
language objectives. These objectives may include pronunciation, vocabulary
items or grammar structures.
· It will usually include skills objectives too. The skills objectives will
state what level the learners will achieve in speaking, listening, reading
and writing.
· A syllabus for young learners will sometimes include educational objectives.
For example, the teacher may want children to learn how to use a dictionary.
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| 3. What types of syllabus are there? |
· There are many different beliefs
about how children learn languages, and so there are many different types
of syllabus.
· A structural syllabus lists learning in the form of grammar structures,
for example 'to have', 'I can', 'he/she likes', and so on.
· A topic-based syllabus lists learning under topics (My body, Sport, Animals,
etc).
· A task-based syllabus lists what language children can learn from doing
tasks, for example doing a shopping role-play task, deciding together on
class rules for learning English, or planning a class picnic. |
| 4. How can a syllabus help teachers and children? |
· A syllabus can help the teacher
think beyond the coursebook and plan learning over a period of one semester
or one school year.
· If teachers design a syllabus together, it means that everyone in the
school is trying to achieve the same objectives.
· A syllabus can help the teacher see if the children's learning is meeting
the aims and standards of the curriculum.
· Children can also look at the syllabus to check on their progress in learning
English. |
| 一、Summary |
| A syllabus is a way for teachers
to plan language learning objectives and educational objectives over a period
of time. It can be designed after looking at the aims and standards of the
curriculum and the needs of the children. The type of syllabus a teacher
designs will reflect their beliefs about how children learn languages. |
| 二、Glossary |
· syllabus (n) 课程提纲
· aim (v and n) 目标
· standard (n) 标准
· curriculum (n) 课程
· objective (n) 目标
· achieve (v) 达到
· task (n) 任务
· role-play(n) 角色扮演 |
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