The Communicative Syllabus

A Systemic-Functional Approach to Language Teaching

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The Communicative Syllabus

A Systemic-Functional Approach to Language Teaching

Description

Beginning with a thorough survey of approaches to communicative syllabus design, Melrose deals with the early 1970s functional approach and subsequent criticism of it as well as the contemporary search for a process approach to language learning. It proposes a meaning negation model, which draws upon the seminal work of Halliday, Martin, Fawcett and Lemke, and is illustrated through their analysis of a unit from a communicative course book. Its topical-interactional approach is placed within the context of the current debate on language teaching and learning.

Table of Contents

List of Figures
List of Tables
Foreword Robin P. Fawcett
1 The Principles (and Practice) of Communicative Language Teaching
2 The Future of Communicative Language Teaching: Can Linguistics Help?
3 Systemic-Functional Grammar: A 'Communicative' Model of Language?
4 A Meaning Negotiation Model of Language
5 The Functional-Notional Syllabus: How Communicative Is It?
6 Towards 'Authentic' Communication: A Topical-Interactional Approach to Language Learning
7 Fragments of a Topical-Interactional Course
8 The Topical-Interactional Syllabus: A Process Approach to Language and Language Teaching?
9 Discourse and Syllabus: Contemporary Approaches to Process in Language Teaching
Bibliography
Index

Product details

Bloomsbury Academic Test
Published 17 Dec 2015
Format Ebook (PDF)
Edition 1st
Extent 192
ISBN 9781474247283
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Series Linguistics: Bloomsbury Academic Collections
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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Robin Melrose

Robin Melrose is a retired Lecturer in Linguistics…

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