Teaching Lexical Phrases.pptVIP

Teaching Lexical Phrases and Lexical Patterns * Dave Willis: TESOL France: Paris November 2006 ….Communicative competence is not a matter of knowing rules for the composition of sentences... It is much more a matter of knowing a stock of partially pre-assembled patterns, formulaic frameworks, and a kit of rules, so to speak, and being able to apply the rules to make whatever adjustments are necessary according to contextual demands. Communicative competence in this view is essentially a matter of adaptation, and rules are not generative but regulative and subservient. (Widdowson 1989: 13