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| Elexi Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5376 days ago 938 posts - 1839 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: French, German, Latin | Message 17 of 17 11 October 2012 at 12:06pm | IP Logged |
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'I think I must have learned some from MT, or more likely organized what I already knew
into a more coherent form.' - I think you are describing one of the strong points of the grammar translation method (which is what MT, in essence, is ) and which is why it should not be abandoned despite going out of academic fashion in the language teaching world. The 1960s studies of language teaching in Pennsylvania comparing audio- lingual/immersion approaches with grammar translation approaches found that grammar translation produced better results, at least in terms of test scores - I think this was partly due to the better grammatical organisation that the grammar translation method teaches compared with the more inference based audio-lingual method (and, also, probably partly due to more experienced teachers as the audio-lingual method was relatively new at the time). As Rout says, putting them all together, is better still. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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