The Communicative Syllabus

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The Communicative Syllabus is written by Robin Melrose and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1474247288 (ISBN 10) and 9781474247283 (ISBN 13).

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.