Teaching the Communicational Syllabus: The Learner-Centred Approach

Abstract

The aims of the Communicational Syllabus for Forms IV and V may be briefly stated as: preparing school children to speak and respond, that is to interact, appropriately in the target language at the appropriate time in given, real-life situations. It seems therefore, fairly safe to say that it is a clearly learner-centred syllabus, a syllabus in which the learner’s ability to draw on his own resources is emphasized. In other words, children who have completed their Form V course should emerge as self-reliant and confident users of the English language in their life outside the classroom.