Syllabus Design

The Handbook of Language Teaching

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 294-310

  Robinson, Peter ^a  

^a AOYAMA GAKUIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

"Relational Approach" to syllabus design; Approaches to syllabus design and role of learner; Contemporary rationales for syllabus design; Experimental and classroom based research; Grading and sequencing tasks and cognitive processing theory motivation in cognitive psychology; Implementing task based language teaching; Notional functional syllabi; Simple versus complex skilled behavior in second language; SLA and general skill learning drawing on general cognitive mechanisms; Syllabus design "units" of classroom activity and "sequence"

Indexed keywords

EID: 84891032369     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444315783.ch17     Document Type: Chapter

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