The Balanced Curriculum (TBC) is an ideational approach to syllabus and curriculum design that provides a framework for teachers and students to easily see the kinds of focus which are needed in order to learn a language. The central concept of TBC is that language learning and teaching are made up of different elements which should all be balanced.
TBC has two main elements, input and output which could broadly be referred to as the receptive and productive modes. These are then each subdivided by whether the activity is language-focused or fluency-focused