How to Write a Syllabus 
suggested some guidelines of the process of 
writing syllabuses and materials. In the Pre-Writing Stage, the teaching situation and the intended 
learner group should be analyzed. Then, Decisions should be made on the type of assessment, 
resources/ staffing available should. Next, the syllabus designer should have intensive information 
about the learners’ needs, their age, level, interests, and purpose of their learning English, their 
weaknesses and their strengths. This information can be obtained by administering placement tests 
and need analysis, and surveying students’ descriptive analysis.
 Another important factor to consider in the initial steps is to state the learning objectives 
based on the information obtained in the first stage. These can be written in terms of 'can do' 
statements, such as the learner can talk about likes and dislikes; the learner can narrate a story in 
the past tense.