Terrell, Tracy D., Claudine Convert-Chalmers, Marie-Hélène Bugnion, and Michèle Sarner. Deux Mondes: A Communicative Approach. New York: Random House, 1988Terrell, Tracy D., Claudine Convert-Chalmers, Marie-Hélène Bugnion, and Michèle Sarner. Deux Mondes: A Communicative Approach. New York: Random House, 1988. Pp. xxiv, 629.

1989 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 726-727
Author(s):  
Jerry L. Cox
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Communicative Approach

COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE THEORY AND CLASSROOM PRACTICE: TEXTS AND CONTEXTS IN SECOND LANGUAGE LEARNING (2nd ed.).Sandra J. Savignon. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 1997. Pp. v + 287. $40.70 paper.

1998 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 595-595
Author(s):  
Margo Glew
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Second Language ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Classroom Practice ◽  
Second Language Learning ◽  
Communicative Competence ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Asking Questions ◽  
Communicative Approach ◽  
Natural Honey

Savignon writes in her book, Communicative Competence Theory and Classroom Practice: Texts and Contexts in Second Language Learning (2nd ed.), that the communicative approach to language teaching has become so popular that many materials developers have jumped on the bandwagon, claiming a communicative focus to their materials. She writes, “What ‘nutritious’ and ‘natural’ are today to breakfast foods, ‘communicative’ and ‘functional’ are to language texts. How much change has actually taken place is debatable. Just as cereals containing ‘all natural’ honey are no less sweet, so ‘asking questions’ may be no more than a new label for an old unit on the formation of the interrogative” (p. 138).

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