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Criticism:
Within language teaching, learning by heart has been
associated with the audio-lingual methodology popular in the
1960s but later rejected by most methodologists. More recently,
however, both within language teaching and in other areas of
education, people are beginning to realize that learning by heart
has value, for example Just as an automatic knowledge of the
multiplication tables enables the young
mathematician to progress faster into
interesting problem-solving ,so memorized
chunks of language or formulaic utterances
associated with particular communicative
contexts furnish the learner with a rich and
reliable vocabulary which contributes
significantly to his or her overall mastery of
the language(UR,1996).
Another technique