Product-oriented syllabus

A product-oriented syllabus focuses on the graded items, typically grammar-based, that learners are expected to know before moving on to the following level.

A typical product-oriented syllabus is the structural syllabus, also known as a grammatical syllabus, based on the grammatical structures graded according to complexity, which form the basis of the grammar translation and audiolingual methods, as well as more "modern", such as Asher's Total Physical Response and Gattengo's The Silent Way.

In his Communicative Syllabus Design (Cambridge University Press), David Nunan asserts that 'any curriculum which fails to give due consideration to both product and process will be defective.