alleryIn India, English was traditionally taught by the:
AAudio-lingual method
BTotal physical response
CCommunicative approach
DGrammar-translation method
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: D. Grammar-translation method
1. NCERT describes how English teaching in India developed.
2. It states that English was traditionally taught by the grammar-translation method.
3. Structural syllabi came later, and communicative approaches later still.
**Why not the others:** The audio-lingual method, total physical response and the communicative approach came later or were not the traditional Indian practice.
_Source: NCERT, Position Paper of the National Focus Group on Teaching of English (2006), section "1.2.3 ELT (English Language Teaching) in India", PDF p. 11 (ncert.nic.in/pdf/focus-group/english.pdf)_
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