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Kovács, Éva: The History of Teaching Vocabulary
113 Lado t ails oral substitution based on conscious cf»H\:n . 6. Here begins the phase of unconscious learning winch represents the pattern drill. The substitution is not on the problem spot. 7» Free conversation about the context. Lado moves from the conscious towards unconscious learning in his pattern practice drill. No doubt it can be very effective in teaching grammatical structures. Lado, however, warns the teachers not to do all the teaching through it. This is not justified, since not all language learning is of the pattern type. Pattern practice fits between practice with conscious choice and free selection. The major stages of teaching a second language can be listed in order as follows: 1. mimicry-memorization 2. conscious choice 3. pattern practice 4. free selection (Lado 1964: 112) There are two disadvantages of Lado's pattern practice drill. On the one hand these tvpes of exercises neglect the context, ort the other tire pupils may lose interest and motivation. Language is made up not just of correct linguistic habits, but it is first of nil a means of communication in a certain situation. As we will see in the next chapter this is what was recognized and emphasized correctly by the contextual me thod . IV. THE CON I EXTUAL ME IHOD When examinining the different nethods and approaches in the history of language teaching so far we can say that they are all based either on the linguistic structure of the target language or on the contrast?ve analysis of the foreign language and the mother tongue. Khese nethods, however, left out of consideration the fact that a language has got not just linguistic aspects but it is actually realized in a speech act, thus language is also a psychological and a sociological act. S Pit Corder worked out his contextual method which regards language as a verba! behaviour in his English Language Teaching and Television, B. F.
