The Importance of Pragmatic Competence in the efl curriculum: Application and Implications

Table 2: Deductive and inductive approaches to teaching L2 pragmatics: 

 

Teachers  are  also  required  to  participate  in  curriculum  development.  In  fact,  Brown 

(2007:225)  asserts  that  “the  most  apparent  practical  classroom  application  of  functional 

description of languages was found in the development of functional syllabuses, more popularly 

notional-functional syllabuses.” Brown (2007) uses the term notional-functional syllabus to refer 

to the integration of contextualized language functions in curriculum development.