Year of publication: 2009

Title: Snapshot Intermediate Language Booster

Authors: Chris Barker, Brian Abbs, Ingrid Freebairn, and Olivia Johnston

Publishers:Longman

Type of syllabus and how materials are organized:

Structural syllabus, the materials are organized based on grammatical features and forms. 3 chapters is about present simple, past simple, present continous, perfect simple, past perfect, and the rest chapter is about clauses, verbs, passive and future continuous.

Reason:

Based on website exploration, our group learned from:

The Structural Syllabus and Second Language Acquisition by Rod Ellis

Structural syllabus consist of grammatical items usually arrange in the order in which they are to be taught. This kind of syllabus is probably still the most common in language teaching today. Yalden (1983) describes it as ‘traditional’ on the grounds that it is the basis of the grammar translate and audio lingual methods.