audio–lingual

adjective au·dio–lin·gual \ˌȯ-dē-ō-ˈliŋ-gwəl also -gyə-wəl\

Definition of AUDIO-LINGUAL

: involving a drill routine of listening and speaking in language learning

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1959

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