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1991:268).Structuralistsunderstandgrammarasbasicsentencepatterns,and
pointtodifferencesingrammaticalstructuresbetweenthelanguagesasthe
mainreasonfordifficultywhenlearninganL2.Learningalanguageisthere-
foreseenasovercomingthosedifficultiesthroughacquiringasetofappropri-
atemechanicalhabits,anderrorsarefrowneduponasreinforcing‘badhabits’.
TheAudiolingualMethodseemstobeaneasylanguageteachingmethod
fortheteacher.Asthereisnoroomforinteractionandnegotiationofmean-
ings,andthestepsinvolvedintheapproacharepresentation,practice,repeti-
tionanddrills,teacherscanfollowthestepsinamechanicalway.Moreover,
teacherswholackprofessionaltrainingcanfeelsecurefollowingthismodelof
instructionastheaudiolingualtechniquesmakethelessonpredictable.Finally,
anaudiolingualmethodologycanbesuccessfullyusedwithteacherswhose
ownknowledgeofthetargetlanguageislimited,becauseoralpracticeinthe
methoddoesnotrequireconversationalfluencyfromtheteacher.
Itcanbeconcludedthatwithinthebehaviouristorientation,successfulteach-
ingisdefinedasdevelopinggoodlanguagehabitsinlearnersthroughteaching
themdiscreteitemsofthelanguage,mainlybypatterndrills,memorisationof
dialoguesorchoralrepetitionofstructuralpatterns.Hence,theteacher’ssuccess
isassociatedwithameasurablelinguisticproduct(Komorowska1999:4).
1.2.2.Thecognitiveapproach
Theaudiolingualparadigm,embracingpatternpractice,drillingandmemo-
risation,wascalledintoquestioninthesixtieswhenChomskyrejectedthe
behaviouristtheoryoflanguagelearningandthestructuralistapproachto
languagedescription.Hisideasrevolutionisedtheperceptionoflanguage,
whichconsequentlyinfluencedtheconceptionoflanguageteaching,al-
thoughChomskyhimselfnevermadeanyreferencestothelatter.Therefore,
itseemsworthwhiletopresentsomefundamentalChomskyanassumptions
andrelatethemtothenotionoftheteacher’ssuccess.
Chomsky’stheoryoftransformationalgrammarholdsthatthebasicproper-
tiesoflanguagederivefrominnateaspectsofthemindandfromhowhumans
processexperiencethroughlanguage.Thus,languageisnotasetofstructures
tobemasteredautomatically,butratherafinitesetofrulesfromwhichan
infinitenumberofsentencescanbeformed.Likewise,languagelearningcan-
notberegardedasareproductiveprocessofhabitformation,butacreative
processofrulegeneration.Cognitivepsychologyfocusesonstudents’mental
powersandtheirabilitytotransfertheoreticalknowledge(Chomsky’s‘compe-
tence’)topracticallanguageuse(Chomsky’s‘performance’).Hence,pupilsare
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