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| Teaching a Foreign Language: A Tentative Enterprise | page 93-116 | ||
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The paper deals with the issue of teaching a foreign language from a dialogic
perspective that focuses on the integration of different means of communication.
Teaching how to interact in a foreign language does not aim at knowledge
of a certain set of verbal devices but at competence-in-performance in dialogic
interaction. After an overview of the state of the art in applied linguistics, the
activity of teaching is described as a tentative enterprise insofar as it does not
necessarily lead to learning.
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The concept of language as dialogue is explained as
dialogic competence-in-performance. Having clarified the basic notions of language
and teaching, a foreign language syllabus is proposed that starts from simple
action games and proceeds to suggesting a set of utterance variants. Special
attention is paid to principles of politeness, to lexical means for predicating and
to grammatical means of referring. Finally, general guidelines are offered for
more effective teaching that can improve the process of learning.
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| keywords: competence-in-performance, learning, syllabus, | |||
