For a discussion of the necessity for the goals of language teaching to be expressed in pedagogic and linguistic terms, see Perren G. Specifying the Objectives: Is a Linguistic Definition Possible? in ELT 25.2 1971 pp 120-131.
2.
This is based on an account of redundancy in Frank Smith "Understanding Reading", p. 20, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1971.
3.
The recent grammar by Quirk et al A Grammar of Contemporary English. Long-man, 1972, is a notable exception.
4.
Morrison, J.W.An Advanced Course in Listening Comprehension. The British Council and Newcastle upon Tyne University, 1974.
5.
To quote from Widdowson H. G. An Approach to the Teaching of Scientific English Discourse RELC Journal Vol. V, No. 1 June 1974.
6.
Wijasuria B.S.The Occurrence of Discourse Markers and Inter-Sentence Connectives in University Lectures. M. Ed. Thesis , University of Manchester, 1971 .
7.
For a full discussion of these terms and their theoretical justification see Allen J. P. B. and Widdowson H. G. Teaching the Communicative Use of English IRAL Vol. XII/1 1974.
