CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

GROWTH DEVELOPMENT CHILD

TEACHING METHODS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The Structural-Oral-Situational Approach is based on what kind of language learning theory?
A
Behaviorist
B
Cognitive
C
Social
D
None of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Palmer and Hornsby prepared the basic grammatical structures of English the theory that knowledge of structures must be linked to situations. The oral and the Situational Language Teaching is a type of behaviorist habit-learning theory.

Detailed explanation-2: -S.O.S (The Structural-Oral-Situational approach) It is a communication of certain aspect of the Direct Method, oral and Audio Lingualism. The basic importance features of this approach are: Learning a language is not only learning its words but also the syntax.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Oral Approach relies on the use of situations to teach language. A situation is the use of such as pictures, objects, and or realia, to teach. Students are expected to listen and repeat what the instructor says. This means that students have little control over content.

Detailed explanation-4: -According to the Behaviorist Theory, Skinner (1985) equated learning a language to verbal behavior. Therefore, he believes that language acquisition like any other behavior can be observed, rather than trying to explain the mental systems underlying these types of behaviors.

Detailed explanation-5: -In the “structural approach, ” materials were sequenced in order of increased difficulty of grammatical and lexical forms. In the “situational approach, ” the same materials were presented in the form of meaningful dialogues; sequencing did not depend upon the relative difficulty of grammatical and lexical items.

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