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The Communicative Syllabus
A Systemic-Functional Approach to Language Teaching
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About this book
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.
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PRACTICEĀ
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Foreword
- 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
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