Name : Fikri Haikal

Student’s Id : 180203206

Answer the questions below based on the materials provided and some additional materials you read.
Please do not forget to list your references and NO PLAGIARISM IS ALLOWED.

1. What use do you make syllabuses in your teaching?

2. Is a syllabus different from a curriculum? In what ways are these terms similar of different?
3. What steps are involved in developing a language curriculum?
4. Based on the article, how do Classical Humanism, Reconstructionism, and Progressivism differ
in their assumption about a curriculum?
5. Given an example of an objective as part of a language course. What are the advantages and
disadvantages of using objectives in syllabus planning?
6. In what ways has a focus on learners influenced views of the curriculum?
7. What does Finney mean by “integrated approach” to curriculum development?
8. What is meant by a communicative curriculum?
9. Fill the table below with types of language syllabus designs!

No. Syllabus Types Characteristics Skill focus (Macro and

1 Grammar and
structural syllabus
2 Situational and
thematic syllabus
3 Functional and
notional syllabus
4 Task – based
syllabus
5 Content – based
syllabus
6 Skill – based
Micro Skills)
In this sense, student learn
from the simpler to more
The content of the language teaching is complex structures an they
a collection of the fprm an structures ofmay learn the structures more
the languages being taught easily
The content are organized according toReading, speaking, and
situations in which stuents learn writing
A collection of the functions of the Student learn how to use the
nations that are performed when thetarget language in authentic
language is use(wilkins,1976, p8) communication
Includes a series of purposeful task that
language learners nee to perform, task
as activities when using the targetDevelopment ability of the
language student
The learners use the foreign language to the student learning language
study other subject such as : science, at the same time learning
maths, biology, etc about the new informations.
This syllabus is based on the
development of language skill using theListening, reading, writing,
target language and speaking
syllabus
Answer Sheet

1. I make a syllabus for the learning plan that I will do in a certain period of time, also to facilitate
me in systematic learning management, so that make it easier for me to provide material for each
meeting Ialready know what should I do. Such as, at the first meeting we only started the class
with introductions to each other. The next meeting, I have given teaching material, and the next
meeting was the same, according to the syllabus that I have made before.

2. - Curriculum and syllabus are almost the same but slightly different in the target objectives.
- “a syllabus is a plan of what is to be achieved through our teaching and our students' learning"
(Breen, 1984, p 54 ).
- The curriculum is a set of plans and arrangements regarding the objectives, content, and
learning materials as well as the methods used to guide the implementation of learning activities
to achieve certain educational goals.
- Syllabus is a learning plan for a particular group and / or group of subjects / themes that
covers competency standards.
- Curriculum as the main vision of education.
- The general objectives of education are in the curriculum and they are general.
- Syllabus is the mission of the agreed curriculum achievement process.

3. According to Beauchamp, there are five steps or stages in

developing a curriculum (Beauchamp’s System):
a. Determine the arena or scope of areas to be covered
by the curriculum (schools, districts, provinces,
countries).
b. Establish personnel
c. Curriculum development organization and procedures.
d. Implementation of the curriculum.
e. Curriculum evaluation

4. a. Classical Humanism, The content is a valued Cultural Heritages, the understanding of which
contributes to the overall intellectual development of the learner, and from the point of view of
epistemological objectivism, the content is knowledge which has been identified and agreed to be
universal, unchanging and absolute.
 b. Reconstructionisme, no longer the content, but the objectives of the teaching-learning program.
Where the main purpose of education is to bring about some kind of social change.
c. Progressivisme, the purpose of educational form the point of view of the process model is to
enable the individual to progress towards self-fulfilment.

5. Students are able to speak English fluently

and master objectives in English such as
listening, speaking, writing, reading and
vocabulary development.

a.Advantages
- Managing learning: Management of learning suggests a more active
role by the student.

- Planning instruction: Once you have developed learning objectives for

a course or module of learning, it can become easier to sequence
instruction.

- Enhancing learning: student can make more appropriate choices about

study methods and content emphasis.

- Facilitating assessment: Learning objectives can facilitate various

forms of assessment, which may be formative or summative.

- Designing or redesigning curriculum: To revise the curriculum or

instruction in a particular course, you may begin with the learning
objectives for that course and/or program outcomes for the program
and work backwards.

- Producing new insights: The process of clarifying objectives may

produce major changes in those who engage in the effort.

b.Disadvantages
- Potentially Poorer Performance on Tests

- Student Unpreparedness

- Teacher Unpreparedness
 - Time-Consuming Assessment

- Varying Degrees of Relevancy and Applicability

6. The focus of curriculum development is

divided into 4 parts
a. National, Key policies, general objectives,

basic competencies
b. institutional, Curriculum structure and

guidelines implementation
c. Field of study, Learning programs in

every field
studies / subjects
d. operational, Study programs for study

units
the smaller one

7. A method applied to ELT that is student-centered and is an attempt to combine several goals in
order to create a new outcome.

8. At a time when there is recognized need a language teaching to give adequate attention to
language use as weel as language form, various national functional(communicative approach) to
language teaching are being advocated.

9. The answer on the table sheet.

References

1. There are no reference, because I made it by my own words

2. - http://haifa-afifah.blogspot.com/2014/01/perbedaan-antara-kurikulum-dan-silabus.html
- Mirza, F. What is syllabus and its types a brief.pdf (GoogleClass)
3. - http://jasafadilahginting.blogspot.com/2011/01/kurikulum-dalam-pandangan-beuchamp.html
4. Finney, D. The ELT Curriculum.pdf (Pages 71-74)
5. - School.shorelineschool.org(writing-content-and-language-objectives.pdf)
-https://cole2.uconline.edu/courses/46295/pages/advantages-of-using-learning-objectives
-https://www.prodigygame.com/blog/advantages-disadvantages-problem-based-learning/
6. - https://sites.google.com/site/putraandesnata/faktor-yang-mempengaruhi-pengembangan-kurikulum
- http://file.upi.edu/Direktori/FIP/JUR._PEND._LUAR_BIASA/196209061986011-
AHMAD_MULYADIPRANA/POWER_POINT/PT_KAI_KURJAR_(R.Ibrahim)_%5BCompatibility_Mode%5D.pdf
7. Finney, D. The ELT Curriculum.pdf
8. Apple Linguistics, Vol 1, No 2
9. Mirza, F. what is syllabus.pdf