The Diffusion of Innovation in Language Teaching
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The last two decades in applied linguistics—which roughly coincide with the evolution of the communicative approach in language teaching—have seen the development of a number of language teaching innovations, including the notional/functional syllabus, the process syllabus, the Natural Approach, the procedural syllabus, and task-based language teaching. All of these proposals have contributed in important ways to an understanding of theoretical issues related to designing innovative language syllabuses. But it is only rather recently that applied linguists have begun to investigate the problems associated with implementing these innovations.
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- Authors
- Markee, N.
- Corresponding author
- Markee, Numa
- ORCID
- Markee, Numa
- Venue
- Annual Review of Applied Linguistics
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (CUP)
- Published
- 1992-03
- Volume
- 13
- Pages
- 229-243
- ISSN
- 0267-1905 (ISSN-L)
- 1471-6356
- OpenAlex
- W2114783107
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- 113
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- 1
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- 17.76
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Annual Review of Applied Linguistics (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Language and Linguistics › EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Literature and Literary Theory › Second Language Learning and Teaching
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Language and Linguistics › Historical Linguistics and Language Studies
- Keywords
- diffusion of innovations, language teaching innovation, syllabus design, communicative language teaching, natural approach, task-based language teaching
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