This paper attempts to provide guidelines for writers who are preparing new materials as well as to offer suggestions to language teachers who must use prescribed texts. The basic assumption is that scientific grammars only describe the production of language by native speakers, while pedagogical grammars are sets of rules ordered in such a way as…

THE GENERAL OBJECTIVE OF THESE UNITS ON SEGMENTAL AND SUPRASEGMENTAL PHONEMES, PREPARED BY NORTHERN UNIVERSITY'S PROJECT ENGLISH CENTER, IS TO HELP 11TH- AND 12TH-GRADERS TO DISCOVER, THROUGH AN UNDERSTANDING OF PHONOLOGICAL PRINCIPLES, THE SYSTEMS UNDERLYING THEIR OWN LANGUAGE. SPECIFIC LANGUAGE-SKILL OBJECTIVES ARE THE IMPROVEMENT OF (1)…

FLES programs are generally viewed from the vertical dimension, as the beginning classes in a continuing language program. This paper treats the horizontal dimension, the interrelationship of the foreign language program with other curricula such as literature, history, and language arts. Three current trends in language arts have implications for…

This article discusses the incompatibility between the goal of communicative competence (defined more narrowly as minimal approximative communicative competence) and current practices of syllabus design, and suggests more relevant alternatives. Foreign language instruction is still dominated by the teaching of language structure for its own sake,…