| Functional
approach |
Functions
are the purposes for which you use English.
Examples: suggesting, inviting, disagreeing, expressing
interest.
Exponents are the way you express functions. Examples:
suggesting: Shall we...? Let’s... Why don’t we...?
A course with a functional approach is a sequence of
functions and their exponents. It does not present grammar as
a graded sequence, as in the structural-situational
approach.
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