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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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PRINCIPLES
AND
PRACTICE
Participants
Communication
needs
processor
(CNP)
Profile
of
needs
Language
skills
selector
Meaning
processor
Communicative
competence
specification
Figure
1.2
Model
for
specifying
communicative
competence
(Munby
1978)
Variables
of
the
Communication
Needs
Processor
(a)
Purposive
domain
(the
occupational
or
educational
purpose
for
which
the
target
language
is
required).
(b)
Setting
(physical
and
psychosocial).
(c)
Interaction
(position,
role-set,
social
relationships).
(d)
Instrumentality
(medium,
mode
and
channel
of
communication).
(e)
Dialect.
(f)
Target
level.
(g)
Communicative
event
(what
the
participant
has
to
do),
(h)
Communicative
key
(attitude).
Once
the
participants
communication
needs
have
been
processed,
a
profile
of
needs
emerges,
which
provides
the
input
to
the
language
skills
selector
and
the
meaning
processor.
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