- A fundamental purpose of learning a foreign language is to be able to read literature written in it.
- Literary language is superior to spoken language. Thus, more attention is given to reading and writing than speaking, pronunciation, and listening.
- Language learning provides a good mental exercise.
- The teacher is the authority in the classroom.
- Classes are taught in the mother tongue with little active use of the target language.
- Most vocabulary is taught in the form of lists of isolated words.
- Long elaborate explanations of the intricacies of grammar are given.
- Grammar provides the rules for putting words together, and instruction often focuses on the form and inflection of words.
- Reading of difficult classical texts begun early.
- Little attention is paid to the content of texts which are treated as exercises in grammatical analysis.
- Often the drills are exercises in translating disconnected sentences from the target language into the mother tongue.
- Little or no attention is given to pronunciation.
- Accuracy is focused and errors are not accepted.
- It is based on the faculty of psychology as a mental training.
- It is a teacher-friendly method of teaching language.
- Grammar is taught deductively.
- Students are evaluated by asking to translate a text from their native language to the target language or vice versa.
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