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Originally Posted by rockdrummer
You make valid points about communication but nobody is suggesting an oral only environment.
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I'm not talking about an oral only environment, either. I was referencing the difference in methodologies between TC and Bi-Bi. When I said "oral only environment" I wass simply pointing out the problem in that one philosophy. But TC, also, is, in practice, English based and some of the problems with language acquisition that are seen in an oral only environment transfer to an English based TC environment. Most TC programs employ sim-com in the classroom, which is visual and oral delivery of English at the same time. Refer back to my post #93 for an explanation of the problems with sim-com. When I refer to oral, I don't always mean "spoken". English is an orally based language, no matter what mode is used to deliver it. But I'll try to be clearer from now on.