Designing a Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) Syllabus

In Hans Heinrich Sterns (1992) 'cultural syllabus' the premise is language related to the situational context in which it occurs. Designers predict situations the learners find themselves in, and utilize these; for example, the British Councilsgoing to the cinema LearnEnglish Teenslistening exercise in which pictures are presented from movie genres, and the students are asked to complete a tick-box exercise to determine whether they think the picture is from a horror, science fiction, romance, comedy, action, historical drama, or cartoon film. In culturally based situations, language is used and learned, so elements of thecultural syllabus` are important for the multi-approach.