The Communicative Syllabus: A Systemic-functional Approach to Language TeachingPinter Publishers, 1991 - 172 pages This book begins with a survey of approaches to communicative syllabus design, from the functional-notional approach of the early 1970s, through criticism of the functional-notional approach in the early 1980s, to the contemporary search for a process approach to language learning. There has been little discussion of how linguistics could contribute to developing such a process approach, and in the second part of the book a possible role for linguistics is assessed: special attention is paid to systemic-functional linguistics and its concern with social context and language use, and to the need for a meaning negotiation model of language. |
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a communicative model | 24 |
A meaning negotiation model of language | 38 |
how communicative is | 65 |
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action semiotic relations activity Actor addressee Alan analysis anaphoric Anna approach attitude behaviour Bill Brumfit Building Strategies Candlin Chapter choice communicative language teaching communicative syllabus component context of situation Cook Derrida dialogue discourses and practices discursive formation discussion ellipsis field flatmates function functional-notional gender roles genre grammatical Halliday Halliday's interaction sequence element interactional exercises interactional processes interpersonal negotiation interpretation interrogative interrogative mood IntProc Jack Lake landlady language teaching learners lexical set meaning negotiation meronyms metafunctions Michael Halliday Micro-sequence Mitzi modality mood move Munby negotiation of meaning non-verbal Nunan options paralinguistic participants question relational:attributive renting accommodation role schema semantic semantic network Senser service encounter situation type social action semiotic social discourses social relationship social situation sociolinguistic conditions SocRel SocSit speaker specific speech acts subject matter Susan syllabus design systemic linguist tasks thematic system patterns tone topical-interactional course transformational-generative grammar Unit utterance verbal