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

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.>

About the author

Robin Melrose is a retired Lecturer in Linguistics, University of Portsmouth.

Product details

• Authors: Robin Melrose, Robin (Formerly of University of Portsmouth Melrose, Melrose Robin
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.12.2015
• EAN: 9781474247276
• ISBN: 978-1-4742-4727-6
• No. of pages: 192
• Series: Linguistics: Bloomsbury Academic Collections; Linguistics: Bloomsbury Academic Collections; Linguistics: Bloomsbury Academ
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > General, dictionaries