•Audiolingualism
(in the US) and the Oral Approach
(in Britain) both view pronunciation as very important and is
taught explicitly from the start. As in the Direct Method
classroom, the teacher (or a recording)
models a sound, a word, or an utterance and the
students imitate or repeat. However, the teacher also typically
makes use of information from phonetics, such as a visual
transcription system (modified IPA or some other system) or
charts that demonstrate the articulation of sounds.
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•Then
the contrastive minimal pair drill
was introduced at this period of time. This
technique, based on the concept of the phoneme
as a minimally distinctive sound (Bloomfield, 1933), is used
for both listening practice and guided oral production.