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audiolingual

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
au-di-olin-gual
IPA
14
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Of or relating to a behaviorist style of teaching foreign languages, based on drills and repetition.

Etymology

From audio- + lingual.

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

audio-lingual (alternative)

Derived Forms

audiolingualism audiolingually

Rhymes With

translingual exolingual quinquelingual brevilingual colingual plurilingual posterolingual metrolingual pentalingual tetralingual ventrolingual crosslingual

Questions

What does audiolingual mean?
Of or relating to a behaviorist style of teaching foreign languages, based on drills and repetition.
Where does audiolingual come from?
From audio- + lingual.

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