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- 129 us in our work.....,..., vie adopt the liest and cmst appropriate means towards the required end". (Palmer 1921: 141? Palmer's eclectic approach and his substitution tallies were a significant contribution to the methodolody of foreign language teaching and in the next chapter we will see how the American linguists made use of and developed his substitution tables. III. THE LINGUISTIC APPROACH The beginnings of the linguistic approach go back to the years of World War II. and it was popularized later by Charles fries and Robert Lado. One of the main characteristics of the linguistic approach is that it gives priority to modern linguistics. A special emphasis is laid on the spoken form with the aim of perfect native pronunciation Intensive and long drills are used often at the expense of the context and the motivation of the pupils* Another main feature of the linguistic approach is that all the sentences of a language are systematic and can he reduced into patterns. Patterns are learned in childhood. Adults no longer have to learn new patterns, they learn new words that are used in old pattern (Lado 1964: 90-91). It was Leonard Bloomfield who outlined first the linguistic approach in his Outline Guide for the Practical Study of Foreign Languages. As a follower of the direct method and Palmer , Bloomfield lays a special emphasis on teaching phonetics, especially phonetics contrasts. Bloomfield is convinced about the fact that the command of a language is not a matter of knowledge. The command of a language is a matter of practice. To understand the forms is only the first step. Copy the forms, read them out loud, net them by heart, and then practise them over arid over again, day after day, until they become entirely natural and familiar. Language learning is overlearning : anything less is of no use (Bloomfield 1942: 12).
