First-year results reported in "International Review of Applied Linguistics," v 10 p 60-72 1972. (DD)

A replication of the first study of Sweden's GUME/Adults Project (Methods of Teaching English to Adults, Gothenburg School of Education) was conducted in 1971. Both experiments were designed to determine which of two language learning theories, "audiolingual habit" or "cognitive code-learning," provides a better basis for teaching foreign language…

The experiments outlined in this paper assess the relative effectiveness of two approaches to teaching foreign language grammar to adults. One approach, called the "Implicit Method," is based on the audiolingual habit theory of language learning. Grammar is taught inductively through the reading of dialogues and practice with carefully…

This study presents the procedures and results of an experiment conducted in Sweden to assess the relative effectiveness of two methods of teaching the grammatical structures of English as a foreign language to adults. The main objective of the study is to find indications as to which of the two theories (the audiolingual habit theory or the…