DESIGN A LISTENING AND SPEAKING SYLLABUS WITH LEARNING-CENTERED APPROACH FOR NURSES OF INTERNATIONAL MANPOWER SUPPLYING AND CONSTRUCTION JSC

A syllabus is a document which says what students will learn in the course. But in fact there are so many different ways to define a syllabus. This stem from the fact that the statement of what will be learnt passes through various stages before it reaches its destination in the students’ minds. There are three approaches to design a syllabus: language-centred approach, skills-centred approach and learning-centred one. A learning-centred course syllabus focuses on the needs of the students and their learning process. Instructors specifically include information that will facilitate the academic success of students. This paper will not only focus on learning-centred approach which is chosen to design a syllabus for a target group who will be described clearly below but give sample of one unit in the syllabus as well.