英语教学术语选摘(133)

(接上期)The inserting of pauses into materials,especially in combination with facilities to record student responses in them,enabled the drill to become a much-used technique.The most basic drills involve repetition only,and consist of a stem and a gap.For example,C'est ici qu'hahite Jean-Pierre could be a stem,followed by a pause for repetition,and could serve the purpose of teaching pronunciation,intonation or cleft-sentence structure.Audiolingualism,however,added a refinement,reinforcement,through provision of the correct response after the student's attempt in the pause,but preferred substitution,mutation and manipulation drills to repetition where teaching structure was concerned.