Language syllabus design

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Language syllabus design

 

Type A Tradition

 It consists of both structural and functional syllabus
 Aspects of Grading a syllabus (McIntosh and strevens,1964)
1. Staging
2. Sequencing
 Selection and Gradation of Vocabulary
1. Frequency of occurrence
2. Coverage
3. Range
4. Availability
5. Learnability (Mackey, 1965)
a. Similarity of the L2 word to its L1 equivalent
b. Demonstrability
c. Brevity
d. Regularity of form
e. Learning load represented by a new word
6. Two other factors:
a. Opportunism
b. interest
 Structure  selection
1. Frequency
2. Coverage
3. Learnability and teachability
 Structure Grading
 Frequency
 Ergonic combination
 Concreteness
 Proportion
 General expediency

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Teaching Pronoun Usage: Don't Trust Your Ear

Teaching Pronoun Usage: Don't Trust Your Ear

The tip for how to teach pronoun usage is not to trust your ear. If you trust your ear, you would have said the answer to the example above would have been "him." You would have been wrong. You have to stick to the rules, regardless of the way it sounds. If you know the rules, use the rules, and apply the rules, there is no reasons why you should miss pronoun usage questions.
Object Pronouns
Object pronouns usually, but not always, are located at the end of sentences. Common object pronouns are us, him, her, us, you, etc. Object pronouns follow objects: direct objects, indirect objects, and objects of the prepositions. If you do not know how these grammatical concepts function, I suggest you review them before moving on so you will be able to recognize direct and indirect objects as well as objects of prepositions. Here is an example: The letter was addressed to him. To is the preposition, so you know that you have to use an object pronoun, which is him.
Assessing Student Understanding
After explaining the concept to students write ten sentences on your SMARTboard and see if students understand the concept. For example: (He, Him) went to school. Obviously, the answer is he as "he" is the subject of the verb.
After students understand how to use subject and object pronouns, introduce who and whom to students. This concept, often dreaded by students, is just as easy as using he/him.

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