Applied Linguistics To Foreign Language Teaching and Learning
Applied Linguistics To Foreign Language Teaching and Learning
Applied Linguistics To Foreign Language Teaching and Learning
Evdokia Karavas
School of Philosophy
Faculty of English Language and Literature
Main issues of this unit
• What is a curriculum?
• What is a syllabus?
• Defining characteristics of syllabi.
• Organising principles of syllabi.
• International perspectives on curriculum development
and the Greek case.
• The new Integrated Foreign Languages Curriculum.
• Steps in designing a course.
• Expressing objectives.
• A priori and a posteriori syllabi.
Foreign Language Curriculum and Syllabus Design 2
A clarification of terms
The terms curriculum and syllabus are
sometimes used interchangeably, sometimes
differentiated, and sometimes misused and
misunderstood.
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