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Liberating the Foreign Language Syllabus.
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Finneman, Michael D. – Modern Language Journal, 1987
While foreign language textbooks have improved in recent years, the standard grammatical base remains unchanged. Instead of the usual morphologically-based syllabus, a semantico-grammatical one is suggested in which the categories, relating meaning and form, make it possible to teach language structure in a coherent and communicatively relevant…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Language Proficiency, Morphology (Languages), Notional Functional Syllabi