Evaluation

• Some of the most relevant representatives of the Grammar-Translation method: Plotz, Ollendorf, Meidinger, and Seiden-Stucker.
• The reform movement advocated that: the goal of study is spoken language and that there must be a phonetic training to establish good pronunciation habits.
• Some of the main features of the Direct method are: communication in the classroom is made in the target language, every day language and grammar taught inductively.
• A typical lesson following the audio-lingual method includes: repetition of the previous steps using negative versions of the target pattern.
• The introduction of linguistic issues and its practice within a meaningful situation, together with the teaching of grammar according to a simplicity principle are traits of: the Oral/Situational Approach.
• What does the acronym SARD mean: security, attention, retention, discrimination.
• The idea that conscious learning controls the process, controlling and correcting the linguistic production of the learnt system is established by Krashen and Terell's: the Natural order hypothesis.
• D. A. Wilkin's seminal work Notional Syllabuses, was published in: 1976
• A communicative syllabus must include: structures, situations, notions and themes.
• Cue and situational drills are examples of: functional communicative activities.