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THE MEANING OF DRILLS AND EXERCISES 1
Author(s) -
Stevick Earl W.
Publication year - 1974
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.1467-1770.1974.tb00232.x
Subject(s) - psychology , transactional analysis , meaning (existential) , transactional leadership , interpretation (philosophy) , linguistics , point (geometry) , developmental psychology , foreign language , social psychology , cognitive psychology , mathematics education , psychotherapist , philosophy , geometry , mathematics
“Meaning” as used here refers to the total effect which participation in a drill or an exercise has on a student. The planned linguistic result is only a small part of this effect. Transactional Analysis is a widely‐known interpretation of what happens inside and between people. This paper summarizes some of the most conspicuous features of that theory, and applies it to two of the simplest and most widely‐used kinds of activity in the language classroom. Although on the overt, social level most of the transactions in organized study of foreign languages are Adult‐Adult, on the psychological level they are often Parent‐Child or Parent‐Adult or Child‐Child. This conflict between social and psychological levels gives rise to various “games”. Certain extensions of the most basic drill procedure produce results that are desirable from a Transactional point of view.