Talk:Notional-functional syllabus

Cleanup (March 10, 2009)

Along with several copy, style and grammar edits, I also deleted the text below. I was not ale to figure out how to clean up this text and have it present in the article. If any other editor is able to do so, please feel free to re-insert the text, after cleaning it up.

"The Notional Functional Syllabus is based on the pragmatics of learning another language. It is structured on the functions of language in a culture. Because "notional" means, in this sense "general (abstract) ideas and specific (contexts or situations) idea ," "functional" mean "authentic tasks that can be accomplished using language," and "syllabus" means "the plan for a particular course," a Notional-Functional Syllabus is a theory of actions for the study of a second or foreign language. It cannot be called a methodology, because it does not delineate specific teaching methods.

Communicative language teaching came from the Notional-Functional Syllabus, but a Notional-Functional Syllabus cannot be called Communicative language teaching because it doesn't teach communicative competence."

My Notes:

1. The first paragraph is generally incoherent. In particular, I cannot grasp the causality (cause-and-effect) of the italicized sentence, and do not know enough about the subject to fix it.)
2. The second paragraph but seems too brief and, therefore, out-of-place.

- Idunno271828 (Talk | contribs) 01:03, 11 March 2009 (UTC)