Some Principles for Designing  A Communicative Course

Dr. Ghulam Mustafa Mashori

Journal of Research (Urdu), Vol # 4, Issue # 1
Some Principles for Designing A Communicative Course

Some Principles for Designing A Communicative Course

Dr. Ghulam Mustafa Mashori/
December 31, 2003

Keywords

Course Designing English Effective Syllabus Structure Principles

Abstract

There is an increasing awareness of the fact that we need to design new courses of English language teaching, as the old syllabi have become outdated. The new syllabuses should be based on communicative approach to language. The old syllabuses based on structural principles have not been successful in enabling the foreign learners of English to use English effectively in real life situations. Hence in this paper, some theoretical and methodological steps have been proposed to design a syllabus. This is done in the light of the results that we have drawn from various attempts already made elsewhere in research in the area of communicative syllabus design.

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Mashori, D. G. M. (2020). Some Principles for Designing A Communicative Course. (جرنل آف ریسرچ (اردو, 4(1), 37–44. https://jorurdu.bzu.edu.pk/website/journal/article/5e84da141c6e7/page

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1.Mashori DGM. Some Principles for Designing A Communicative Course. (جرنل آف ریسرچ (اردو [Internet]. 2020 Apr. 1 [cited 2026 May 17];4(1):37–44. Available from: https://jorurdu.bzu.edu.pk/website/journal/article/5e84da141c6e7/page

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