grammar-translation method

grammar-translation method
/gram"euhr trans lay"sheuhn, -tranz-/
a traditional technique of foreign-language teaching based on explicit instruction in the grammatical analysis of the target language and translation of sentences from the native language into the target language and vice versa.

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