Several factors contributed to a questioning and rejection of the Grammar-Translation Method.
Referred to child language
lea rning as a model for language teaching
Emphasized the importance
of mean ing in learning
Proposed that reading be taught before other
ski lls
And tried to locate language teaching within a broader educational framework
Was one of I he first to record the observation that children use contextual and situational
He proposed the first "structural syllabus"
Gouin developed an approach to teaching a foreign lenguage based on his observations of children's use of lenguage
He believed that langllage learning was facilitated through using lenguage