Teaching Language As Communication

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ISBN: 9780194370776 | 0194370771
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 8/3/1978

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This book develops a rational approach to the teaching of language ascommunication, based on a careful consideration of the nature of language and ofthe language user's activities. It will stimulate all language teachers toinvestigate the ideas that inform their own practice.

Introduction
Usage and Use
Correctness and appropriacy
Usage and use as aspects of performance
Usage and use in classroom presentation
Aspects of meaning: signification and value
Usage and use in the design of language teaching materials
Selecting areas of use for teaching language
Summary and conclusion
Notes and references
Discourse
Sentence, proposition and illocutionary act
Cohesion and propositional development
Coherence and illocutionary development
The relationship between propositional and illocutionary development
Procedures of interpretation
Deriving discourse from sentences: an example
Propositional development: achieving cohesion
Illocutionary development: achieving coherence
Conventions of coherence
Deriving discourse by arrangement: another example
Summary and conclusion
Notes and references
Linguistic skills and communicative abilities
The four skills
Activities associated with spoken language
Activities associated with written language
Reciprocal and non-reciprocal activities
Linguistic skills and communicative abilities
Retrospective and prospective interpretation
Assimilation and discrimination
Non-verbal communication
Summary and conclusion
Notes and references
Comprehending and reading
Preview
The reading passage as dependent exemplification
The reading passage as independent 'comprehension piece'
Extracts: the problem of authenticity
Extracts: the comprehending problem
Priming glossaries
Prompting glossaries
Simplified versions
Simple accounts
Gradual approximation
Comprehension questions: forms and functions
Types of question by reference to form
Types of question by reference to function
Usage reference
Use inference
Other reading exercises
Notes and references
Composing and writing
Preview
Types of grammar exercise
Exercises in usage and use
Composing sentences in passages
Using the contexts of the reading passage
Preparation exercises
Exploitation exercises
Gradual approximation: sentence to discourse units
Gradual approximation: act to discourse units
Focus on single illocutionary acts
Relationships between pairs of acts
Extension to larger discourse units
Rhetorical transformation of discourse units
Information transfer
Summary and conclusion
Notes and references
Towards an integrated approach
Preview: the need for integration
The discourse to discourse scheme
Types of procedure
Demonstration: rhetorical transformation by gradual approximation
Demonstration: rhetorical transformation by illocutionary change
Demonstration: information transfer
Principles of approach
Rational appeal: the use of translation
Integration and control
Summary and conclusion
Notes and references
Index
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