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Necessity and Sufficiency in Language Learning.

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Newmark, Leonard; Reibel, David A. – IRAL, 1968

The article criticizes present-day overemphasis of contrastive analysis procedures in second language instruction. Recommendations are for language teachers to reappraise their classroom objectives and to give paramount importance to mastery of language use rather than mastery of language structure. Pedagogical procedures based on situational…

Descriptors: Adult Learning, Audiolingual Methods, Children, Comparative Analysis