Course planning and syllabus design

Even though notional functional syllabus has been cricticized for some reasons, Still I think it is very useful approach in CLT in that its strengh outweighs the weakness, comparing to structural syllabus which are sequenced according to grammatical structures. Of course, depending on the purpose of learning of target language, different approaches and syllabuses should be applied. However, basically as we are living in the age of globalizaion, we learn English as a communication tool. Therefore, learners should develop their skills in the context by understanding how the target language is used in real world. When they encounter instructed point in communicative usage like it tis used in the real world, learners can stimulate their interest and it meets the goal of the instruction. So, it makes a contribution to develop learner's fluency for funtional purpose in real world. For example, some of my students whose age is not more than 11 years old can introduce themselves in English without thinking any grammatical difficulty. Of course, although they didn't take any grammar lesson for the usage of "TO INFINITIVE", they say "Nice to meet you"to native speakers in Enlgish for greeting naturally. The more they obsess with accurate use of insturcted grmmar point, the more they monitor their lnaguage, so it seems to deter their fluency. Accordingly, I like functional syllabus that satisfies pragmatic purpose and I will design the curriculum based on this syllabus.