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The purpose of this study is to review the criterion of connectedness and to analyse the connectedness among grade clusters of the 2009 English National Common Curriculum. To achieve the purpose, the principles of designing this curriculum were reviewed. The English Common Curriculum was composed of 3 grade clusters including 3rd and 4th grade, 5th and 6th grade for the elementary school curriculum, and 1st to 3rd grade for the middle school curriculum. The connectedness is checked through a horizontal connectedness of the same grade cluster and a vertical connectedness among grade clusters. The curriculum emphasizes the connectedness of the goals, the achievement targets, the communicative functions, the language forms, and the teaching-learning methods among grade clusters. Particularly, the connectedness between primary and secondary school needs to be considered because it is important to continue the interest and the motivation of the primary school. Thus, in this paper, the characteristics and the limitations of the connectedness among grade clusters and their implication are presented based on the result of the vertical and horizontal analysis.