Professional Documents
Culture Documents
NOTIONAL APPROACH
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PUCPR
CONTENT
Background
Claims
What is function?
Bases
Example Unit
BACKGROUND
• For example,
expressing
agreeing questioning requesting
emotions
E XAMPLE OF FUNC TI ON/ NOTI ON
• FUNCTION: Greeting
• (informal) ‘Hello’
• ( formal) ‘ Good evening’
• FUNCTION: Leaving
• (informal) ‘ So long’ or ‘bye
• (formal) ‘ Goodbye’
Notion
Structure Situation
The notion of
Time, space, Vocabulary
time and
quantity, etc items
place
WHAT ARE NOTIONS?
• For example; ‘ I’d like to invite your son to come to my club for
lunch on Saturday.’
A. the function
B. the elements in the situation
C. the topic which is being discussed
WHAT ARE NOTIONS?
• Communicative expressions
Function and/or formulas
Personal Interpersonal
Directive
Referential Imaginative
BASES
• There are three things that this approach takes into
consideration: