本书旨在帮助读者提高对具体语言教学情况分析能力，有助于语言教学机构和语言教师制定切合实际的教学计划和教学策略，也有助于学生更有效地学习第二语言或外国语。在写作上，本书也颇具特色：叙述全面系统，评论客观公允；对可供选择参考的各个变项作了界定，对一些尚待教学实践验证的争议问题也提出了有价值的参考意见。

Contents

Editors' preface

Introduction

PART ONE Policy and practice

1.Language teaching analysis

2.Managing the second languge curriculum

PART TWO Defining objectives

3.Language teaching objectives

PART THREE Content options

4.The language syllabus:pronunciation

5.The language syllabus:grammar

6.The language syllabus:functional analysis

7.The communicative activities syllabus

8.The cultural syllabus

9.The general language education syllabus

PART FOUR Teaching strategies

10.The intralingual-crosslingual dimension

11.The analytic-experiential dimension

12.The explicit-implicit dimension

Proficiency,expressed as communicative competence,has the advantage of being very general and applicable to a wide range of situations. It is ,therefore,useful when a comprehensive but unspecified command of the second language is the goal.However ,it has the disadvantage of being removed from particular situations and uses of the L2.It is abstract and intangible and therefore difficult to apply.

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