Behaviourism as a theory of language teaching and learning?

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Behaviourism focuses on actions as habits. Audiolingual teaching of language is meant to develop speaking habits by repeating sentence patterns over and over. Another approach, sometimes referred to as a cognitive approach, focuses more on understanding the mechanism of the grammar.
Behaviourism has been tried and discredited as a theory to language teaching and learning.
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