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The structural – situational method. 
This method is widely used at the time of writing and a very large 
number of textbooks are based on it. Best it, also has important links with 
the audio lingual method especially as far as the way the language to be 
taught is organized (the “structural” ingredient). New language is 
presented in the form of modal patterns or dialogues. Much use, too, is 
maid of repetition and analogous pattern drilling. 
However, great care is always taking to present and practice language 
within a situation. Billows explains the word “situation” in the passage 
you are about to read. The purpose of the situational ingredient is to 
ensure a meaningful context for language practice. (Another word for this 

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is “contextualization”). In other words it aims to avoid meaningless and 
mechanical practice. 
There are quite a number of prominent methodologists who have 
contributed to foreign language teaching and English in particular. In 
conclusion, it should be said that between the grammar-translation method 
however modified and direct method in various modification there have 
been mixed or in between methods. The advocates of the latter method try 
to avoid the extremes of the former. “Language learning” by Peter 
Humboldt is an example of such a method. 
The chief tendency in the development of Methods abroad may be 
characterized by a scientific approach to the teaching of foreign 
languages, extensive use of linguistic science, psychology, 
psycholinguistics, and experimenting. The progress made in the sphere or 
phonetics, vocabulary and grammar study has shed fresh light on the 
content, i.e., on what to teach, what linguistic material should be used for 
developing audio – lingual skills and written language. 
The practical application of some theoretical views of American 
descriptive structural linguists and psychologists, such as the primary of 
the spoken over the written language, has – led to the oral approach to 
foreign language teaching; the treatment of language as a complex of 
habits and skills, as a form of social behavior, has been realized in 
teaching a foreign language, i.e., a reaction of the organism as a who to a 
social environment. The learner should know what a native speaker’s 
response would be in a certain situation. 
In this article “Learning English as behavior” M. West gives the 
following examples of wrong and right responses: