Major Surgery Due: Redesigning the Syllabus and Texts  

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Valdman, Albert ; Warriner-Burke, Helen P.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Foreign Language Annals (Full Text; di PROQUEST 2004 - terbaru) vol. 13 no. 4 (1980), page 261-270.
Fulltext: 13_03_Valdman.pdf (937.82KB)

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In an attempt to develop higher levels of communicative ability on the part of high school and college foreign language students, some ill-advised methodologists have advocated the replacement of the iraditional situational-structural syllabus by notional or ‘?communicative” syllabuses. In this article we argue that the attainment of a higher level of communicative skills in regular foreign language courses requires instead clearer definition of objectives and limitation in the scope and content of features specified in syllabuses and introduced in textbooks. We also suggest four directions that should be taken to make the situational structural syllabus more compatible with the imparting of a minimal level of communicative ability. These are: (1) giving semantic andfunctional notions higher priority than surface grammatical features in the selection and ordering of grammaticul .features; (2) muking the use of grammatical features subordinate to the achievement of communicative ends rather thun teuching them for their own sake; (3) introducing feulure5 oJ spoken (us versus written) language discourse in texibooks and providing more authentic speech ~amples; (4) reducing grammatical apparatus to a strict minimum and accepting less than full-formed utterances ,from beginning students. These new directions require not only a reduction in the scope of current textbooks but imaginative changes in their design and in the content and progre.Ysion of syllabuses.

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