Introduction 1
PART ONE Policy and practice 23
1 Language teaching analysis 23
2 Managing the second language curriculum 41
PART TWO Defining objectives 63
3 Language teaching objectives 63
PART THREE Content options 107
4 The language syllabus:pronunciation 107
5 The language syllabus:grammar 127
6 The language syllabus:functional analysis 155
7 The communicative activities syllabus 177
8 The cultural syllabus 205
9 The general language education syllabus 243
PART FOUR Teaching strategies 279
10 The intralingual-crosslingual dimension 279
11 The analytic-experiential dimension 301
12 The explicit-implicit dimension 327
Conclusion 349
Bibliography and citation index 369
Index 397