In the Direct Method, ()_communicative skills are regarded as basic.

What do you think of those six methods proposed by Chinese language teachers?

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

How should language rules be learned according to the Direct Method?

What is the contribution made by Daniel Jones and Harold Palmer to the development of foreign language teaching?

What are the five hypotheses of Krashen's Monitor Model?

What is the basic theory of Gestalt psychology?

What are the principles of behaviourism?

What guidelines does the Natural Approach set up for classroom practice?

Column A

① the Oral Approach

②the Audiolingual Approach

③the Cognitive Approach

④ the Natural Approach

⑤the Communicative Approach

Column B

a. Rule learning, meaningful practice and creativity are the focus of classroom teaching.

b.Some of the skills are developing listening and note-taking skills, giving oral presentation, project work, role play and simulation.

c. It employs situations for presenting new sentence patterns and drill-based manner of practising them.

d.In class students are asked to first listen to a dialogue, then repeat and memorize it.

e. When learners are ready to begin talking in the target language, the teacher provides comprehensible and simple response opportunities.

Column A

①the Grammar-Translation Method

② the Direct Method

③the Audiolingual Method

④A the Cognitive Approach

⑤the Communicative Approach

Column B

a.The primary function of language is communication.

b.All languages originated from one language and were ruled by a common grammar.

c. Language is a system of structurally related elements for the expressions of meaning.

d.Every language has its own structures and can not be forced into the constraining pattern of Latin grammar.

e. A native speaker has in his brain a set of grammar rules which he can use to make sentences with.