Abstract
This article looks at an innovative organizational tool for syllabus design of EFL-CALL writing classes which is borrowed from the interdisciplinary field of information architecture. It examines one CALL lab syllabus design for EFL students now being developed at a technical and engineering university in Japan. The tool around which this syllabus design is structured is called LATCH, an acronym for Location-Alphabet-Time-Category-Hierarchy, to describe the visual organizing principles for all information structures. The article will discuss three aspects of the syllabus design: (1) the background to LATCH as an information organizer and educational aid, especially for the teaching of EFL in CALL labs, (2) a description of LATCH as it is presented to upper beginner level EFL students in an actual syllabus, and (3) a discussion of the potential for modifications of this syllabus for students at different levels of EFL learning or computer skills.
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