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Cooper, Robert L. – TESOL Quarterly, 1970
Rejects the assumptions which underlie the audiolingual method and offers two alternative propositions: (1) successful use of language requires the acquisition of communicative as well as linguistic competence and (2) first and second language learning are analogous processes. (Author/FB)
Descriptors: Audiolingual Methods, Child Language, Communicative Competence (Languages), Language Instruction
Sah, P. P. – 1978
Dissatisfied with the linguist's concentration on structure, sociolinguistically inclined linguists turned to anthropology to give an empirical orientation to linguistics. Almost at the same time anthropologists were trying to give a more theoretical orientation to their subject of study, and the structural methods was being sought as the remedy.…
Descriptors: Anthropological Linguistics, Communicative Competence (Languages), Language Research, Linguistic Competence