ABSTRACT
A good number of people who are professionally involved in language teaching will at one time or another in their lives have the responsibility of producing a syllabus, or part of one. This chapter focuses on the major syllabus types, particularly the structural and the notional/functional. It deals with the nuts and bolts of syllabus design, aiming to give the reader a feeling of how syllabuses are actually constructed. The chapter then looks at different sorts of language teaching programmes, particularly language for specific purposes (LSP) programmes, and general courses where the purposes are far less specific. In some language teaching textbooks, the contents page of the Teacher's Book reveals details of the syllabus. One reason why the Internet is powerful is because it can make a world of resources available to an individual sitting in one small room.
