The Natural Approach uses three stages as a basis for beginners: 1 ______; 2 giving the students comprehensible input about experiences and allowing for opportunities to engage in conversations about their own experiences; and 3 input and discussions, concerning opinions.

What are the main trends of applied linguistic research in the present period?

Does it always matter if the "real world" is not being practised in the classroom? Why or why not?

What are the two categories of meaning of language proposed by Wilkins? What is the distinction between the two terms?

How does transformational generative linguistics differ in research methods?

What are the merits and limitations of the Total Physical Response?

What are the principles and consequences of the Reform. Movement?

What are the disadvantages of the Grammar-Translation Method?

Column A

1) ______ Bloomfield

2) ______ Chomsky

3) ______ Halliday

4) ______ Skinner

5) ______ Freud

Column B

 List some of the characteristics of the Oral Approach.

Column A

1) ______ the theory of language underlying the direct method

2) ______ the theory of learning underlying the direct method

3) ______ one of the objectives of the direct method

4) ______ one of the techniques of the direct method

5) ______ one of the main features of the direct method

Column B