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grammar-translation method  

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  • The grammar-translation method is a language teaching method developed during the 18th and 19th centuries in Germany. It is sometimes called the classical method because its basic framework was adopted from the traditional method for teaching the classical languages, Latin and Greek. [Source: Encyclopedia of Bilingual Education; Grammar-Translation Method]

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