Issues in syllabus design / / edited by Akram Faravani, Mitra Zeraatpishe, Maryam Azarnoosh and Hamid Reza Kargozari.

• Superior document: Critical new literacies: the praxis of English language teaching and learning (PELT) ; v. 6
• TeilnehmendeR: Faravani, Akram.; Zeraatpishe, Mitra.; Azarnoosh, Maryam.; Kargozari, Hamid Reza.
• Place / Publishing House: Rotterdam ;, Boston : : Sense Publishers,, [2018]
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Critical New Literacies: The Praxis of English Language Teaching and Learning 006.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (viii, 173 pages) :; illustrations.

The various types of syllabi and the host of related issues in the field of second language teaching and course development manifest the significance of syllabus design as one of the most controversial areas of second language pedagogy. Teachers should be familiar with different types of syllabuses and be able to critically analyze them. Issues in Syllabus Design addresses the major types of syllabuses in language course development and provides readers with the theoretical foundations and practical aspects of implementing syllabuses for use in language teaching programs. It starts with an introduction to the concept of syllabus design along with its philosophical foundations and then briefly covers the major syllabus types from a historical perspective and pedagogical significance: the grammatical, situational, skill-based, lexical, genre-based, functional notional, content, task-based, negotiated, and discourse syllabus.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Copyright page -- Preface -- The Concept of Syllabus Design and Curriculum Development / Robert S. Murphy -- Philosophical Foundations of Language Curriculum Development / Parviz Maftoon and Saeed Safdari -- Product-Process Distinctions in the ELT Curriculum / Rosemary Wette -- Grammatical Syllabus / Akram Faravani and Mitra Zeraatpishe -- Situational Syllabus / Parviz Birjandi and Jila Naeini -- Issues in Syllabus Design / Homa Jafarpour Mamaghani and Mandana Zolghadri -- Toward Maximising the Impact of the Lexical Syllabus in Second Language Teaching / Dat Bao -- Genre-Based Syllabuses / Goodith White -- Functional Approaches to Syllabus Design / David Little -- Issues in Syllabus Design / Shannon Fitzsimmons-Doolan and Fredricka L. Stoller -- Task-Based Syllabus Design / Anne Ma -- Negotiated Syllabus / Maryam Azarnoosh and Hamid Reza Kargozari -- Discourse Syllabus / Michael Handford -- Back Matter -- Author Biographies -- Index.