Aural comprehension tests, which are designed so that the student can give non-vocal reactions to orally-presented problems are valuable for two reasons: they provide the teacher of English with an objective and accurate measure of the pupils' comprehension and can also be given simultaneously to a large group of students. According to the author,…

The main premise of this article is that tape recordings can be a very useful tool to the classroom language teacher. The author points out that the tapes are ideal for the habituation type of learning (dialogs, memorization, repetition, etc.,) which is preliminary to the communication stage of language learning. He is mainly concerned with five…