The document discusses the functional-notional approach to language, emphasizing its role in communication to achieve specific purposes between individuals. It outlines the advantages, such as a focus on communicative expressions and suitability for beginners, as well as criticisms related to the order of functions and challenges in teaching higher levels. Additionally, it categorizes functions of language into personal, interpersonal, directive, referential, and imaginative uses.

1. Functional-notional
Approach
Nohemi Cardenas
Andrea Muros
Carolina Gaxiola
TEAM # 4

2. OBJECTIVE
FUNCTIONAL-NOTIONAL
APPROACH
NOTIONS
FUNCTIONS
ADVANTAGES
ADVANTAGESCRITICISM
FUNCTIONS
CATEGORIES

3. FUNCTIONS
❖ Is a communicative act.
❖ It is the use of the language to achieve a purpose, usually involving the
interaction of at least two people.
❖ EXAMPLES
➢ Suggesting
➢ Promising
➢ Apologizing
➢ Greeting
➢ Inviting

4. OBJECTIVES
❖Explain the language in terms of what
people do with it.
❖How they use the language to live.

5. Criticism
❖ Order:
➢ Criticisms of functional approaches include the difficulty in deciding
the order in which different functions should be presented.
➢ Another problem lies in the wide range of grammatical structures
needed to manipulate basic functions at different levels of
formality.
❖ No structures syllabus
➢ There is also the apparently random nature of the language used,
which may frustrate learners used to the more analytical and
“building-block” approach that a grammatical syllabus can offer.
➢ Another apparent weakness is the question of what to do at higher
levels.

6. Advantages
❖Communicatively useful expressions
❖Focus on communication
❖Suitable to beginners

7. Functional Categories of Language
Personal: clarifying or arranging one´s ideas
Interpersonal: establish and maintain desirable social and
working relationships
Directive: attempt to influence the actions of others; accept or
refuse direction
Referential: informing or reporting about things, talking about
languages
Imaginative: discussions involving elements of creativity and
artistic expression

8. Notions
It’s a concept or idea
Specific
General
(vocabulary)
(topics)
Time past
temporal clauses