A Brief Description of Audio-Lingual Method and Discussion of its Advantages and Disadvantages vis-a-vis the English Language Teaching Situation in Chinese Middle Schools

With the development of reform and open policy, foreign languages become more and moreuseful. And how to teach a foreign language is an important matter. A lot of methods of teaching foreign languages have been developed. There’re grammar-trans-lation method, direct method, audio-lingual method, communicative method, etc. In this paper I in-

Language and Situation:Language varieties and their social contexts

本书作者迈克·格雷戈里是多伦多约克大学英语教授,六十年代初曾在英国利兹大学任教。从那时起,他接受了伦敦语言学派的传统,对马林诺夫斯基。