ASSESSMENT

Answer the following questions logically:

1. What is linguistic theory of Situational Approach and Audio-lingual Method?

Situational Approach is to insure that the language that is being taught is realistic, all the words and
sentences must grow out of some real situation or imagined real situation. Thus, the meaning of words is
tied up with the situations in which they are used. The Audio-lingual Method was widely used in the 1950s
and 1960s, and the emphasis was not on the understanding of words, but rather on the acquisition of
structures and patterns in common everyday dialogue.

2. What are Chomsky, Firth, Halliday, Hymes, Labov, and Krashen’s views on the
soundness of the theoretical foundation and the practicality of prior assumptions about the
language structure and learning?

3. Chomsky, Firth,
4. Halliday, Hymes, Labov, and
Krashen, who questioned the
soundness of the the-
5. oretical foundation and the
practicality of prior assumptions
about the language
6. structure and learning. Attacked
as unsound, behaviorist learning
theories could not
7. serve as a solid foundation for
how humans learn a language,
since much use of a
8. language was not imitated
behavior but created anew from
the underlying knowl-
9. edge of the abstract rules.
10. Chomsky, Firth,
11. Halliday, Hymes, Labov, and
Krashen, who questioned the
soundness of the the-
12. oretical foundation and the
practicality of prior assumptions
about the language
13. structure and learning. Attacked
as unsound, behaviorist learning
theories could not
14. serve as a solid foundation for
how humans learn a language,
since much use of a
15. language was not imitated
behavior but created anew from
the underlying knowl-
16. edge of the abstract rules.
17. Chomsky, Firth,
18. Halliday, Hymes, Labov, and
Krashen, who questioned the
soundness of the the-
19. oretical foundation and the
practicality of prior assumptions
about the language
20. structure and learning. Attacked
as unsound, behaviorist learning
theories could not
21. serve as a solid foundation for
how humans learn a language,
since much use of a
22. language was not imitated
behavior but created anew from
the underlying knowl-
23. edge of the abstract rules.
24. Chomsky, Firth,
25. Halliday, Hymes, Labov, and
Krashen, who questioned the
soundness of the the-
26. oretical foundation and the
practicality of prior assumptions
about the language
27. structure and learning. Attacked
as unsound, behaviorist learning
theories could not
28. serve as a solid foundation for
how humans learn a language,
since much use of a
29. language was not imitated
behavior but created anew from
the underlying knowl-
30. edge of the abstract rules.
31. Chomsky, Firth,
32. Halliday, Hymes, Labov, and
Krashen, who questioned the
soundness of the the-
33. oretical foundation and the
practicality of prior assumptions
about the language
34. structure and learning. Attacked
as unsound, behaviorist learning
theories could not
35. serve as a solid foundation for
how humans learn a language,
since much use of a
36. language was not imitated
behavior but created anew from
the underlying knowl-
37. edge of the abstract rules.
38. Chomsky, Firth,
39. Halliday, Hymes, Labov, and
Krashen, who questioned the
soundness of the the-
40. oretical foundation and the
practicality of prior assumptions
about the language
41. structure and learning. Attacked
as unsound, behaviorist learning
theories could not
42. serve as a solid foundation for
how humans learn a language,
since much use of a
43. language was not imitated
behavior but created anew from
the underlying knowl-
44. edge of the abstract rules.
45. Chomsky, Firth,
46. Halliday, Hymes, Labov, and
Krashen, who questioned the
soundness of the the-
47. oretical foundation and the
practicality of prior assumptions
about the language
48. structure and learning. Attacked
as unsound, behaviorist learning
theories could not
 49. serve as a solid foundation for
how humans learn a language,
since much use of a
50. language was not imitated
behavior but created anew from
the underlying knowl-
51. edge of the abstract rules.
Chomsky, Firth, Halliday, Hymes, Labov, and Krashen, questioned the soundness of the
theoretical foundation and the practicality of prior assumptions about the language structure and learning.
Attacked as unsound, behaviorist learning theories could not serve as a solid foundation for how humans
learn a language, since much use of a language was not imitated behavior but created anew from the
underlying knowledge of the abstract rules.

APPLICATION:
In your own view and perspective, how can one be communicatively competent?

The learner’s should have the ability to understand and use the language appropriately to
communicate in authentic rather than simulated in social and school environments. To be a
communicatively competent we should communicate ethically, state the ideas clearly, manage some
conflict and be open minded into others opinion. It is where we can understand each other sides.