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DRILLING AND METHODOLOGY
Author(s) -
Strain Jeris E.
Publication year - 1968
Publication title -
language learning
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.882
H-Index - 103
eISSN - 1467-9922
pISSN - 0023-8333
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-1770.1968.tb00205.x
Subject(s) - meaning (existential) , linguistics , psychology , sentence , grammatical category , situational ethics , function (biology) , noun , philosophy , social psychology , evolutionary biology , psychotherapist , biology
Examining the function of Drilling in the Mim‐Mem and Pattern‐Practice Methods of teaching a foreign language, one arrives at two observations: (a) the former method emphasizes situational utterances and learning derived from a socio‐cultural meaning base while the latter emphasizes grammatical patterns and learning derived from a grammatical meaning base; (b) the former uses lexical meanings to shift the learner's attention from the mechanics of producing paired utterances to communicating by means of those utterances while the latter uses lexical meanings to shift the learner's attention from the conscious production of a grammatical pattern to the total meaning of the sentence being produced.