【正确答案】A notional-functional syllabus is a way of organizing a language-learning curriculum, rather than a method or an approach to teaching. In a notional- functional syllabus, instruction is not organized in terms of grammatical structure, as had often been done with the Audio-Lingual Method ( ALM) , but instead in terms of “notions” and “functions. ” In this model, a “notion” is a particular context in which people communicate.