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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Core ClaimThe 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. 2 Classification
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What was the bilingual method based on?
A series of controlled teaching experiments by C. J. Dodson, published in 1967.
C. J. Dodson presented the method in his 1967 work Language Teaching and the Bilingual Method. It was conceived on the basis of a series of controlled experiments on teaching, which Wolfgang Butzkamm describes as a frontal attack on the ban on the mother tongue.
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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.
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The bilingual method, however, advocates two revolutionary principles based on the results of scientifically controlled experiments in primary and secondary schools.
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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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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