There arose, out of need, the Reading Approach, in view of improving learner’s reading skills to foundationally enable them towards language learning. This did not last long since the blazing flame of World War II demanded a method that could quickly produce learners familiar with foreign languages. Henceforth, some linguists, hired by the US government, devised the Audio-Lingual Approach – a mixture of behavioral psychology and structural linguistics. The same while we eye the Oral or Situational Approach taking strides in Britain. With difference both focused on quick teaching of a foreign language, working on narrow or specified areas.

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Eric Raymond

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