The Communicative Syllabus: A Systemic-Functional Approach To Language Teaching (Linguistics: Bloomsbury Academic Collections)

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.

• • Author: Robin Melrose
• • Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• • Publication Date: Dec 17, 2015
• • Number of Pages: 192 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Hardcover
• • ISBN-10: 147424727X
• • ISBN-13: 9781474247276