Whose 1959 review of Skinner's Verbal Behavior weakened audio-lingualism?
ANoam Chomsky
BCharles Fries
CWilga Rivers
DJames Asher
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: A. Noam Chomsky
1. Audio-lingualism rested on behaviourist ideas, especially Skinner's.
2. Chomsky's 1959 review of Verbal Behavior questioned the relevance of behaviourism to language learning.
3. This deprived the method of its scientific credibility.
4. Fries helped build the method, Rivers critiqued it in 1964, and Asher developed TPR.
**Why not the others:** Charles Fries built the method, Wilga Rivers wrote a later critique in 1964, and James Asher developed TPR.
_Source: Wikipedia, "Audio-lingual method", section "Fall from popularity" (revision 1379760889)_
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