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    The document discusses syllabus design for English courses. It explains that a syllabus is more specific than a curriculum and specifies the content of lessons to help learners achieve goals. When designing a syllabus, the language teaching method, theory of language, theory of learning, and learner type should all be considered. The choice of syllabus will impact the effectiveness of learning as it determines what is taught and in what order based on the underlying language theory and view of how learning occurs. There are different types of syllabi a teacher can choose from to best suit their learners and teaching situation.

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    The document discusses syllabus design for English courses. It explains that a syllabus is more specific than a curriculum and specifies the content of lessons to help learners achieve goals. When designing a syllabus, the language teaching method, theory of language, theory of learning, and learner type should all be considered. The choice of syllabus will impact the effectiveness of learning as it determines what is taught and in what order based on the underlying language theory and view of how learning occurs. There are different types of syllabi a teacher can choose from to best suit their learners and teaching situation.

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    The document discusses syllabus design for English courses. It explains that a syllabus is more specific than a curriculum and specifies the content of lessons to help learners achieve goals. When designing a syllabus, the language teaching method, theory of language, theory of learning, and learner type should all be considered. The choice of syllabus will impact the effectiveness of learning as it determines what is taught and in what order based on the underlying language theory and view of how learning occurs. There are different types of syllabi a teacher can choose from to best suit their learners and teaching situation.

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    SYLLABUS DESIGN FOR ENGLISH COURSES

    The planning of courses including designing curriculum and syllabus is often ignored in
    English language teaching and teacher training. Harmer (2000) states that decisions about course
    content are very often not taken by teachers, but by some higher authority. Curriculum and
    syllabus are two major documents necessarily prepared in a course design task. Where a
    curriculum describes the broadest contexts in which planning for language instruction takes
    place, a syllabus is a more circumscribed document, usually one which has been prepared for a
    particular group of learners (Dubin and Olshtain, 1986). A syllabus is more specific and more
    concrete than a curriculum, and a curriculum may contain a number of syllabi. A curriculum may
    specify only the goals – what the learners will be able to do at the end of the instruction – while
    the syllabus specifies the content of the lessons used to lead the learners to achieve the goals
    (Krahnke, 1987).

    The aspects of language teaching method which are closely related to syllabus are the
    theory of language, theory of learning and the learner type. The choice of syllabus should take
    those three aspects into consideration. Furthermore, to design a syllabus is to decide what gets
    taught and in what order. For this reason, the theory of language explicitly or implicitly
    underlying the method will play a major role in determining what syllabus is adopted. A theory
    of learning will also play an important part in determining the syllabus choice. For example, a
    teacher may accept a structural theory of language, but not accept that learners can acquire
    language materials according to a strict grammatical sequence of presentation. While the basic
    view of language may be structural, the syllabus, in that case, may be more situational or even
    content-based. Learner types can be seen in practical and observable terms, such as type of
    cognitive activity, life style, aspirations, employment, educational and social backgrounds and so
    on ((Krahnke, 1987)

    The choice of syllabus is a major decision in language teaching, because syllabus that
    being chosen will be effect the learning process, whether it will be effective or not. So, because
    of that, there are some types of syllabus, those types of syllabus can be chosen by the teacher and
    implemented in various teaching situations. Teacher can choose the best type of syllabus that
    will suit the learner and the learning process.

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