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Riley, Philip – 1982
A large number of materials and foreign language teaching methods use the communicative or functional approach; however, a systematic basis for the choice of appropriate methodologies has not yet been developed. The cause of this situation can be found in the historical and epistemological development of speech act theories and discourse analysis…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Language Research, Notional Functional Syllabi, Second Language Instruction