COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE: THEORY AND CLASSROOM PRACTICE

Overview

Main description

This ground-breaking text, which stresses the use of meaningful language at all stages of language acquisition, is about texts and contexts in second language learning. It is intended for teachers and teachers-in-training as an introduction to the theoretical basis for communicative language teaching and as a guide to building a program consonant with those theories.

Table of contents

1. Definitions of Communicative Competence2. L2 Acquisition Research3. Learner Attitudes and Interests4. Selection of Materials5. Shaping the Curriculum6. Testing