And after the functions, what?

Abstract

Chaucer, Faulkner, Shakespeare, O'Neil, Eliot... Although these names need no introduction, they do represent a very minute number of literary figures who for years have been flagrantly disregarded in the language teaching classrooms. The practice of pushing literature into oblivion has been evident not only during the structural and/or audiovisual instruction days, but also when the functional and notional approaches to language teaching were being launched and accepted with all their new promises and practices.