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Bilingual Method

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The bilingual method of foreign language teaching was developed by C. J. Dodson in 1967 as a counterpart to the audiovisual method, using dialogues paired with a picture strip as the basic teaching text in both approaches. Unlike the audiovisual and direct methods, the bilingual method makes the printed text available from the very beginning, presented alongside the spoken sentence so learners can see the shape of individual words, and it conveys meaning bilingually through utterance equivalents rather than through rote repetition with no translation. The pictures function mainly to aid recall and practice of the dialogue rather than to carry meaning on their own, and the learner's mother tongue continues to be used in oral pattern drills on grammatical structures. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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The printed text is made available from the very beginning and presented simultaneously with the spoken sentence, and meanings are conveyed bilingually as utterance equivalents in the manner of the sandwich technique. 1
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1967 1
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1. Bilingual method (Wikipedia)
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    The bilingual method of foreign language teaching was developed by C.J. Dodson (1967)
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    the printed text is made available from the very beginning and presented simultaneously with the spoken sentence
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    The bilingual method of foreign language teaching was developed by C.J. Dodson (1967) as a counterpart of the audiovisual method.
  • Associated With: Audiovisual Education, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilingual_method, lead paragraph, counterpart-method sentence
    The bilingual method of foreign language teaching was developed by C.J. Dodson (1967) as a counterpart of the audiovisual method.
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