Communicative Syllabus
Subtitle: A Systemic-Functional Approach to Language Teaching
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 172
ISBN-13: 9781474247276
Subjects: Language and languages, study and teaching; Functionalism (linguistics); Systemic grammar
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."--Bloomsbury Publishing.