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Download full textQuilter, Daniel – 1966
Some 115 comments on improving the teaching of foreign languages are organized in a broad variety of categories. They include: (1) class preparation, (2) student-teacher contact, (3) acoustic problems, (4) the role of English, (5) the use of the blackboard, (6) the role of the textbook, (7) grammar, (8) students and their questions, (9) teaching…
Descriptors: Audiolingual Methods, Audiolingual Skills, Audiovisual Instruction, Conversational Language Courses
Minn, Jay Paul – 1970
The pattern drill used in language instruction, termed the "schmattern drill" in this article, is severely criticized for depriving students of meaningful communication opportunities. Methods of alleviating student boredom through the extension of and variation in pattern drill design are illustrated by examples of contrasting "schmattern" and…
Descriptors: Attention Span, Audiolingual Methods, Communication (Thought Transfer), Dialogs (Literary)
