What is a Syllabus? (Plan de estudio)

A syllabus is a program or document that a teacher writes and distributes to provide students with an overview of a college]/school course. The syllabus is usually distributed on the first day of class. It contains several parts:

• The course title and meeting times
• The name of the teacher and his/her contact information
• Expectations and attendance policies
• Topics and chapters covered
• Test dates
• Other relevant dates
• Grading policy
• recommended materials

There are many types like:

Functional/notional: it's no organized in terms of grammatical structure. notion (context) and function (specific purpose for a speaker in a given context)

Grammatical Syllabus:  is based on the structures of a language (example: may start with present simple, then the present continuous, etc.)

Lexical Syllabus: The lexical syllabus is a form of the propositional paradigm that takes 'word' as the unit of analysis and content for syllabus design

Situational: have the potential advantage of tapping students' knowledge of the world as an aid to learning, and also providing realistic themes, and motivating and give them materials that they need to learn

text-based: are a common and convenient method of organising ESL/EFL textbooks, and share the motivational potential of situational syllabi, especially if selection is based on needs identification performed in terms of topics or on the findings of research on frequency of topics in the conversations of people of the same age as the learner

Procedural: Is ‘task’. That is, language is taught through tasks, which cover ‘form’ and ‘meaning’. The content of a procedural syllabus is a variety of tasks that the learner can do using the target language. Examples of such tasks are: giving directions, asking people for information, drawing pictures based on oral instructions, etc.

Mixed:  is one which includes a variety of elements, specifically structures, functions and notions, situations and topics.

process:  focuses on the skills and processes involved in learning language. It can be compared with a product-oriented syllabus, which focuses on completed acts of communication, the outputs.

Example ...

A process-writing syllabus would focus on the processes writers use to complete their tasks, such as collecting information, organising ideas, drafting and revising, rather than just the features of the products of writing, such as letters, compositions, notes, reports etc.

NOW, TO CRATE MY OWN =) !