Historically, CLT has been seen as a response to the audio-lingual method ( ALM ), and as an extension or development of the notional-functional syllabus.

A notional-functional syllabus is more a way of organizing a language learning curriculum than a method or an approach to teaching.

In a notional-functional syllabus, instruction is organized not in terms of grammatical structure as had often been done with the ALM, but in terms of “ notions ” and “ functions .” In this model, a “ notion ” is a particular context in which people communicate, and a “ function ” is a specific purpose for a speaker in a given context.

Proponents of the notional-functional syllabus claimed that it addressed the deficiencies they found in the ALM by helping students develop their ability to effectively communicate in a variety of real-life contexts.

In a notional-functional syllabus, instruction is not organized in terms of grammatical structure, as had often been done with the audio-lingual method ( ALM ), but instead in terms of " notions " and " functions.

Proponents of the notional-functional syllabus ( Van Ek & Alexander, 1975 ; Wilkins, 1976 ) claimed that it addressed the deficiencies they found in the ALM by helping students develop their ability to effectively communicate in a variety of real-life contexts.

Alcuin of York is the most influential teacher in Europe as he set the basis of the syllabus for European schools.

A curriculum is prescriptive, and is based on a more general syllabus which merely specifies what topics must be understood and to what level to achieve a particular grade or standard.

In the DVIDA Nightclub Two-Step syllabus, this action is called a Traveling Cross.

In Denmark it is mandatory to receive education answering to the basic school syllabus until the 10th year of school education.

In the United States, Virgil and specifically the Aeneid were taught in the fourth year of a Latin sequence, at least until the 1960s ; the current ( 2011 ) Advanced Placement curriculum in Latin continues to assign a central position to the poem: " The AP Latin: Virgil Exam is designed to test the student's ability to read, translate, understand, analyze, and interpret the lines of the Aeneid that appear on the course syllabus in Latin.

Part 141 is a more structured method for pilot training, based on FAA syllabus and other standards.

Military pilots are trained with a different syllabus than civilian pilots, which is delivered by military instructors.

The close link with the undergraduate syllabus is underlined by the refusal until 1856 to admit Scholars to the Library ( a request for admission was rejected by the Board in 1842 on the grounds that Scholars should stick to their prescribed books and not indulge in ' those desultory habits ' that admission to an extensive library would encourage ).

Also, the term is used in the international Latin-American dance syllabus, where it is a misnomer: the music used for this slower dance is the bolero-son.

The syllabus is limited to natural and reverse turns, Changes, Fleckerls, Contra Check, Left Whisk, and canter time Pivots ( Canter Pivots ).

It is a commonly assigned reading for undergraduates of American universities majoring in the political or social sciences, and part of the introductory political theory syllabus at Cambridge, Oxford and other institutions.

The original Shotokan kata syllabus is introduced in Funakoshi's book Karate-do Kyohan, which is the Master Text of Shotokan karate.

Japan Shotokai's kata syllabus is the same as established in " Karate-do Kyohan " added Gigo Funakoshi's staff kata Matsukaze No Kon.

This type of kata is not traditional Gōjū-ryū kata ; instead, they are " promotional kata ", simple enough to be taught as part of Physical Education programs at schools, and part of a standardized karate syllabus for schools, independently of the sensei's style.

Nagamine Shoshin ( Matsubayashi Shorin-Ryū ) developed fukyugata dai ichi, which is part of current Matsubayashi Shorin Ryu syllabus ; and Miyagi Chojun developed fukyugata dai ni, which is part of current Gōjū-ryū syllabus under the name gekisai dai ichi.

The BBC Prison Study is now taught as a core study on the UK A-level Psychology OCR syllabus.

To this day, Shitō-ryū recognizes the influences of Itosu and Higaonna: the kata syllabus of Shitō-ryū is still often listed in such a way as to show the two lineages.

Deoband's curriculum is based on the 17th-century Indo-Islamic syllabus known as Dars-e-Nizami.

They looked for new ways to present and organize language instruction, and advocated the notional functional syllabus, and eventually CLT as the most effective way to teach second and foreign languages.

It started in 1998 when two Akban veterans started organizing the vast X-kan syllabus learnt in Akban into a computerized database.

Whilst Director, he actively endeavoured to turn the Institute into the forefront of world archaeology, organising an overhauling of the former syllabus, in particular changing the undergraduate curriculum which " largely anticipated the benchmark archaeology curriculum developed nationally shortly afterwards ".

A curriculum is prescriptive, and is based on a more general syllabus which merely specifies what topics must be understood and to what level to achieve a particular grade or standard.

All of them follow the syllabus and curriculum provided and regulated by the Malaysian Ministry of Education ( Kementerian Pendidikan Malaysia ).

The uniform curriculum followed by these schools all over India ensures that the children of government employees do not face education disadvantages when their parents are transferred by providing a common syllabus and system of education.

A student will work one on one with a faculty member and create a custom curriculum and syllabus to satisfy their interest.

The college updates the curriculum and syllabus regularly.

Working together, Meliton Geronimo, his younger brother Jaime Geronimo and Emmanuel del Espiritu Santo Querubin, with the encouragement and wisdom of Sikaran Haris Cipriano Geronimo, Melencio Bigasin and Manuel Ocampo and Arnis de Mano Grandmaster Daniel Rendal, formalized the syllabus of the techniques and curriculum of Sikaran.

A Sudbury school is a school that practices a form of democratic education in which students individually decide what to do with their time, and learn as a by-product of ordinary experience rather than adopting a descriptive educational syllabus or standardized instruction by classes following a prescriptive curriculum.

It offers Zambian Standard syllabus and Cambridge curriculum.

The prerequisite training curriculum did not include a syllabus for Varsity Leader Specific Training for well over a year.

Same year, the NCC curriculum was extended to include community development / social service activities as a part of the NCC syllabus at the behest of Late Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru who took keen interest in the growth of the NCC.

* 1998: ACCA's syllabus formed the basis of the United Nations ' global accountancy curriculum titled Guideline on National Requirements for the Qualification of Professional Accountants, published in 1999.

The tan belt syllabus is part of The Basic School and recruit training curriculum.

Both syllabus and curriculum are often fused, and usually given to each student during the first class session so that the objectives and the means of obtaining them are clear.

Many generalized items of a syllabus can be amplified in a specific curriculum to maximize efficient learning by clarifying student understanding of specified material such as grading policy, grading rubric, late work policy, locations and times, other contact information for instructor and teaching assistant such as phone or email, materials required and / or recommended such as textbooks, assigned reading books, calculators ( or other equipment ), lab vouchers, etc., outside resources for subject material assistance ( extracurricular books, tutor locations, resource centers, etc.

Darul Ulooms followed — and today continue to follow — the age-old Islamic curriculum known as the Dars-e-Nizami syllabus, which has its origins in the Nizamiyya Islamic schools of the Seljuk Empire, but was developed in the Indian subcontinent under Islamic thinkers and Ulema, such as Shah Waliullah.

The Geshe curriculum consists of the " Collected Topics " () which were preliminary to the syllabus proper, as well as the five major topics, which form the syllabus proper.

The curriculum is geared to the Swazi syllabus which is based on the British system, but is expanded to enable children from the United States and other countries to fit into the educational system in their home countries when they leave Swaziland.