Communicative methodology in language teaching : the roles of fluency and accuracy / Christopher Brumfit.

Contents
1. Research methodology, teaching methodology and educational values
Science, Human svience and Non-science
Social science and the methodology of teaching
Educational research and language-teaching methodology

2. Language and language acquisition: a contemporary view
The nature of human language
Language acquisition
Second language acquisition

3. Language forma and language value
An initial historical note
The case for a polarity

4. Accuracy and fluency
The basic polarity
Learning and teaching
An interim model of the language-teaching process

5. The bases for fluency activity: small-group work and a natural linguistic environment
Classroom organization
Group-work activity in education
Group work in foreign-and second-language learning
Fluency in comprehension
Fluency in writing
etc

6. The content of language teaching: Language and meaning
Process and product
Proposals for communicative content
The Bangalore project
Meaning and the language syllabus

7. Language learning as an integrated process
Context for an integrated model
The role of a product-based syllabus
Integration of the model

8. A fluency-based model of language-learning: problems and implications
Research and administration
Fluency distinguished from accuracy
Fluency and serious content

Includes index.

Revision of thesis (Ph. D.)--University of London, 1983.

Bibliography: p. 147-162.