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Publication details [#10049]

Widdowson, Henry G. 1979. Directions in the teaching of discourse. In Brumfit, Christopher J. and Keith Johnson, eds. The communicative approach to language teaching. Oxford University Press. pp. 49–60.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

discourse, teaching of

Annotation

W. suggests that there is a need to take discourse into account in the teaching of language, and considers how far the attempts made by linguists and others to analyse discourse might help to do this.