Journal of English Language Teaching

Content or Skills?: An analysis of the Tamilnadu State Board Draft syllabus in English

S. Vincent

Former Head of the Department of English, Arul Anandar College, Karumathur, Tamil Nadu

Keywords: curriculum, CLT, evaluation

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Abstract

The Tamil Nadu Government has recently published the Draft Curriculum for English to be implemented soon. This paper attempts a review of the syllabus. It outlines the theoretical background of curriculum designing in English and analyses the Preamble to the syllabus. It then brings out the merits and demerits of the draft syllabus and offers suggestions for reframing it.

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