10 Questions
What distinguishes the Audio-Lingual Method from the Direct Method?
Focus on grammatical sentence patterns
Who played a significant role in developing the Audio-Lingual Method?
Charles Fries
Why was the Audio-Lingual Method sometimes referred to as the 'Michigan Method'?
Development by Charles Fries
What was the main approach for learners to acquire the sentence patterns in the Audio-Lingual Method?
Conditioning through shaping and reinforcement
What challenge did students face with the Audio-Lingual Method regarding language learning?
Inability to transfer classroom habits to real-world communication
According to Noam Chomsky, how do speakers understand and create novel utterances?
Using their knowledge of underlying abstract rules
Why did Chomsky propose that language acquisition is not a product of habit formation?
To emphasize the role of cognition in discovering language rules
What approach emphasizes that learners play an active role in their own learning?
Cognitive Code Approach
Why did the Cognitive Code Approach not directly lead to a language teaching method?
There were no practical applications derived from it
What principle shared by Caleb Gattegno's Silent Way aligns with the Cognitive Code Approach's view on learning?
'Teaching should be subordinated to learning.'
Learn about the Audio-Lingual Method, which focuses on drilling students in grammatical sentence patterns and has a strong theoretical basis in linguistics and psychology. Compare it to the Direct Method in terms of vocabulary acquisition and oral-based approach.
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