Hostname: page-component-6d856f89d9-72csx Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-07-16T05:59:57.375Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

Invitations and Negative Questions: On Some Problems in the Communicative Approach to Foreign Language Teaching

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 November 2008

Werner Hüllen
Affiliation:
Universität Essen

Extract

It is generally accepted that the aim of second or foreign language teaching is communicative competence; after a sequence of courses, students should be able to use the language (approximately and in certain fields of communication) as native speakers do. But how, for that matter, do native speakers use their language? An exhaustive answer to this question would certainly demand more than one paper. Attention will therefore be drawn to only two points that are important for the problem under discussion: correctness and communicative value.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1980

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

REFERENCES

Alexander, L.G. 1977. “Threshold level and methodology.” In The Threshold Level for Modern Language Learning in Schools. van Ek, J.A., ed., pp. 148–65.Google Scholar
Allen, J.P.B., and Widdowson, H.G.. 1978. “Teaching the Communicative Use of English.” In English for Specific Purposes: A Case Study Approach, Mackay, R. and Mountford, A., eds. London: Longman, pp. 717.Google Scholar
Bausch, K.-R., ed. 1979. Beitrāge zur didaktischen Grammatik. Probleme, Konzepte, Beispiele. Königstein: Scriptor.Google Scholar
Clark, H.H., and Clark, E.V.. 1977. Psychology and Language: An Introduction to Psycholinguistics. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.Google Scholar
Cole, P., and Morgan, J.L., eds. 1975. Syntax and Semantics. Vol. 3. New York: Academic Press.Google Scholar
Corum, C. et al. , 1973. Papers from the Ninth Regional Meeting. Chicago: Chicago Linguistic Society.Google Scholar
Edelhoff, E., ed. 1978. Kommunikativer Englischunterricht. Prinzipien und Ubungstypologie. Munich: Langenscheidt-Longman.Google Scholar
Ehrich, V. and Salle, G.. 1972. “Uber nicht-direkte Sprechakte.” In Linguistische Pragmatik, Wunderlich, D., ed, pp. 255–87.Google Scholar
Eichler, W., and B8unting, K.-D.. 1976. Deutsche Grammatik. Form, Leistung und Gebrauch der Gegenwartssprache. Kronberg: Scriptor.Google Scholar
van Ek, J.A. 1977. The Threshold Level for Modern Language Learning in Schools. London: Longman.Google Scholar
Gordon, D., and Lakoff, G.. 1975. “Conversational Postulates.” In Syntax and Semantics, Vol. 3, Cole, P. and Morgan, J.L., eds., pp. 83106.Google Scholar
Halliday, M.A.K. et al. , 1964. The Linguistic Sciences and Language Teaching. London: Longman.Google Scholar
Hüllen, W. 1979. “Sprachfunktionen in einer didaktischen Grammatik.” In Beitrage zur didaktischen Grammatik,Bausch, K.-R., ed., pp. 117–37.Google Scholar
Hüllen, W., and Jung, L.. Forthcoming. Sprachstruktur und Spracherwerb. Düsseldorf: Bagel; Bern: Francke.Google Scholar
König, E. 1977. Form und Funktion. Eine funktionale Betrachtung ausgewählter Bereiche des Englischen. Tübingen: Niemeyer.Google Scholar
Larkin, D., and O'Malley, M.H.. 1973. “Declarative Sentences and the rule-of-conversaiion hypothesis.” In Papers from the Ninth Regional Meeting, Corum, C. et al. , eds., pp. 306–19.Google Scholar
Leech, G., and Svartvik, J.. 1975. A Communicative Grammar of English. London: Longman.Google Scholar
Lyons, J. 1968. Introduction to Theoretical Linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Lyons, J.. 1977. Semantics 1 and 2. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. press.Google Scholar
Mackay, R., and Mountford, A., eds. 1978. English for Specific Purposes: A Case Study Approach. London: Longman.Google Scholar
Schumann, J.H., and Stenson, N., eds. 1975. New Frontiers in Second Language Learning. Rowley, Mass.: Newbury House.Google Scholar
Searle, J. 1975. “Indirect Speech Acts.” In Syntax and Semantics, Vol. 3. Cole, P. and Morgan, J.L., eds.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Widdowson, H.G. 1979. Explorations in Applied Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press.Google Scholar
Wilkins, D.A. 1976. Notional Syllabuses: A taxonomy and its relevance to foreign language curriculum development. London: Oxford Univ. Press.Google Scholar
Wunderlich, D., ed. 1972. Linguistische Pragmatik. Frankfurt: Athenaum.Google Scholar