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Grammar--Communicative Competence--Functions/Notions: Implications for and from a Proficiency Orientation.
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Byrnes, Heidi – Unterrichtspraxis, 1984
Discusses methodological implications of a proficiency orientation focused on speaking, placing proficiency in the context of grammar, communicative competence, and functions/notions. Discusses repercussions in foreign language teaching of the varying emphases on these contexts. Asserts that a proficiency orientation allows tailoring of teaching…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Competency Based Education, Grammar, Language Proficiency
Some Pedagogical Implications of Speech Act Theory: The Interpersonal Function in the First Six Weeks of Elementary German.
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Hummel, Robert D. – Unterrichtspraxis, 1985
Discusses how to fulfill the goals of communicative language teaching in a first-year German course while at the same time teaching grammar. Illustrates one aspect of "functional grammar" as it can be taught in the first six weeks of a first-year course in German at the university level. (SED)
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), German, Higher Education, Introductory Courses