2. At the end of this lesson, you will be able to:
Enumerate the characteristics of a
structural syllabus.
Distinguish a structural syllabus from all
other types through its key feature of
“syntheticity”
Evaluate the pros and cons of a structural
syllabus
Understand the place of structural syllabus
relative to the teaching and learning of
language.
6. This is an example of a
STRUCTURAL SYLLABUS
are a product of this syllabus.
7. So, what is a
Structural Syllabus?
(a.k.a. Grammatical Syllabus, Formal Syllabus,
Traditional Syllabus, or Synthetic Syllabus)
8. Characteristics
most familiar of syllabus
types
grammatical / structural
aspects of language form
are the most basic or
useful.
functional ability arises
from structural
knowledge
Theory of
learning
Theory of
language
ability to use or
communicate in the
new language
9. What can we find in a structural
syllabus?
language form / grammatical
form
traditional, Latin-based,
descriptive/prescriptive
grammatical classification
and terminology
10. Sentence – largest unit of discourse that is
regularly treated in a structural syllabus
• Semantics
• Interrogative
• Declarative
• Exclamations
• Conditionals
• Structure
• Simple
• Compound
• Complex
• Compound-Complex
Types of Sentences
14. 2 Ways to Synthesize
1) analyzed info is AVAILABLE for
production and checking
accuracy
BLUE!
BLUE!
15. 2 Ways to Synthesize
2) analyzed info is
TRANSFORMED from possibly
conscious knowledge to
unconscious behavior
BLUE
SKY!
BLUE!
16. Types of Structural Knowledge
Explicit /
Descriptive
• ability to
describe rules or
explain why an
utterance is right
or wrong
Recognition
/Judgmental
• ability to merely
to judge whether
a given form is
acceptable or
not, and to
correct
unacceptable
form
Accurate
Productive
Behavior
• ability to use the
structures being
taught without
necessarily
describing or
making
judgments about
them.
21. Grammar Translation
Pang-ilang pangulo si Noynoy Aquino?
1. How many presidents were
there before President Noynoy
Aquino?
2. Which/What number does
Noynoy Aquino come in the
list/order of Philippine
presidents?
3. What is Noynoy Aquino's
ordinal place in the line up of all
23. Criteria for Content Sequence
Kelly:
Complexity ("facility"), regularity ("grammatical
analysis"), and productivity, or the usefulness of the
structure
Canale and Swain:
Grammatical complexity via intuitive criteria ;
communicative facility, communicative generalizability,
degree of facilitation of acquisition of other structures,
perceptual accessibility, and dialectal markedness.
24. Criteria for Content Sequence
Other criteria:
degree of difference between the structure concerned
and its equivalent in the learners' first language, the
learners' communicative need for the structure, and
the order in which the structure occurs in a natural
acquisition sequence.
o In practice, sequencing decisions are generally
based on presumed simplicity, frequency, and
need.
25. Master at initial presentation
or
Learn via spiraling?
LEARNING THEORY:
