grammar-translation method

[gram-er-trans-ley-shuhn, -tranz-]

gram·mar-trans·la·tion meth·od

[gram-er-trans-ley-shuhn, -tranz-]
noun
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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