Publications

Publication details [#703]

Allen, J.P.B. and Henry G. Widdowson. 1974. Teaching the communicative use of English. IRAL 12 (1) : 1–21.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

communicative competence, teaching of | foreign language acquisition

Language as a subject

English, L2-acquisition of | English, teaching of

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.de/journals/order/en.start.html

Annotation

A. and W. suggest an approach to the teaching of English which recognizes that the acquisition of receptive and productive knowledge of a language must involve the learning of rules of use as well as rules of grammar.

Reprints

Mackay, Ronald and Alan J. Mountford. 1978. In Mackay, Ronald and Alan J. Mountford, eds. English for specific purposes: A case study approach. Longman. pp. 56–77.

Brumfit, Christopher J. and Keith Johnson. 1979. In Brumfit, Christopher J. and Keith Johnson, eds. The communicative approach to language teaching. Oxford University Press. pp. 122–142.