The Communicative Syllabus: A Systemic-Functional Approach to Language Teaching

by Robin Melrose

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 147424727X
• ISBN13: 9781474247276
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"