The Communicative Syllabus

Download or read book The Communicative Syllabus written by Robin Melrose and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-12-17 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.