Chapter 2: The Grammar Translation Method

The following is the oldest methodology in the teaching of foreign languages

• Gradual Release Model

• Grammar Translation Method

• The Direct Method

• Teacher-Centred Method

Which of the following pairs of languages are the best examples of classical languages?

• Italian and Spanish

• Greek and Portugeuse

• Latin and Greek

• Latin and English

The following is the main aim of teaching a foreign language under the Grammar Translation Method:

• For learners to be able to read and write literature written in the target language.

•   For learners to be able to speak and understand a foreign language

• For learners to be able to read and speak in a learners mother tongue through MTB-MLEs

•   For learners to learn all the four language skills

______________is the clearly stated theory that influenced the development of the Grammar Translation Method.

• Krashen’s Input and Output hypothesis

•        Transformational Generative Grammar

• Principles and Parameters

• None of the Above

The Grammar Translation Method is taught ___________.

• deductively

• situationally

• creatively

• inductively