Lingüística de la comunicación: El currículo multilingüe de géneros textuales

with the demise of formalism in linguistics, education of mother tongue and foreign language needs revising. formal trends fall short of the two major challenges in education today: making students fit to operate in a multilingual world and making them proficient for using language -both l1 and l2- in society, that is, having a full grasp of academic and professional genres. this article makes an actual proposal of curriculum innovation that takes genres -with a nod to the systemic functional theory behind it- as the ultimate unit in language programming and that is being embraced in some parts of europe under the label: 'integrated language curriculum'. a historical review, a cognitive account based on language information processing, and some structure for classroom implementation are also considered.