Date:
May 1992
Page No.:
74
In writing "Communicative Competence and the Japanese Learner,"
I hoped to stimulate discussion of the role of communicative language
teaching in high schools and colleges in Japan. I welcomed Sheen's
response, therefore, in the expectancy that it would stimulate debate.
In a comprehensive survey of modern rhetoric, Tootell (1992)
proposes a number of principles to guide the writer of a "critical
response" of the kind Sheen provides. I will make use of these principles
as a way of shaping my own reply.
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