Notional functional syllabus design

Notional functional syllabus design

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  Notional Functional SyllabusEmergence Key features Notions & Functions Components Form and Function Content Selection and Sequencing Advantages Criticism Conclusion
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  Emergence Due tothe inadequacy and drawbacks of both the structural and situational syllabuses in securing their desired objectives Learners are left short of inadequate communicative capacity Here communicative competence is the starting point
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  Key Features: Productoriented Content based ‘ Meaning’ is of high importance Analytic approach Interpersonal rather than personal, (sociolinguistic and contextual)
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  Key Features: Languageis viewed as a living, complex and dynamic phenomenon To make the learners able to analyze the language and to make them communicatively competent ‘ Notional’ and ‘situational’ ‘notional functional’
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  Key Features: Notonly the mastery of the language but also to enable the learner how the language works
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  Notion/Function ?? Communicativepurposes for which language is used Agreeing Approving Enquiring Apologizing suggesting Notion means conceptual meaning of any type Time Direction Size Frequency Cause
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  Components: Meaning basedrather than structure based through communicative methodology The meaning components: Conceptual/lexical: referential meaning Modal: attitude of the speaker and the degree of certainty Functional: the use to which an utterance is put by the speaker
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  Form and FunctionMeaning of an utterance is derived from the whole situation and not from words and sentences used in isolation Request It’s cold here Would you ease close the door I wonder if some one could close the door You have left the door open I am hungry Suggestion Statement Requesting Threat
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  Content: What ismost useful for the learner to communicate in the target language Appropriate forms are chosen to perform those communication Concepts and forms of widest value
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  Content: Linguistic contentis planned according to the semantic demands of the learner Heterogeneous linguistic items No ordered direct exposure to the grammar of the language
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  Selection and SequencingSelection and sequencing is tough What to include do not only depend on linguistic ground rather what the planners think most useful for the learners to communicate Classroom functions and real world functions Complex ordering – apologizing, requesting- easy/difficult
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  Advantages: Communicative aspectalong with grammar and situational factors Sustains the motivation of the learners as communicative competence is targeted Superior as it includes important grammatical functions to cover all kinds of language functions not only the typical one of certain situations
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  Advantages: Realistic learningtasks Everyday , real world language Develops naturally from existing teaching methodology Development of flexible, modular courses
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  Criticism: Similar attacksas were made to structural syllabus The inventories of notions and functions seem similar to inventories of grammatical points and lexical items Dividing language into discrete units misinterprets the nature of language as communication Skeptical status of notion, its desirability and feasibility as a functional unit of syllabus organization
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  Conclusion: The originalcommunicative revolution was subsided Became the starting point of later explorations
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