Which approach requires language sub-skills to be repeated until they move from controlled to automatic; difficult to delete?

Which approach requires language sub-skills to be repeated until they move from controlled to automatic; difficult to delete?

• A. Audiolingualism
• B. Meaningful input
• C. Language Competence
• D. Information processing approach

Answer: (D)

Automating language processing through repeated practice is what this item is testing. In the Information Processing Approach, learners move from consciously controlling sub-skills—like decoding, parsing sentences, and retrieving forms—to performing them automatically. With enough practice, these mental steps become proceduralized, drawing on long-term memory so they require less attention and can be executed quickly and fluently. Once sub-skills reach this automatic level, they’re hard to delete because they’ve become entrenched routines in processing language. Think of it as building mental shortcuts: practice turns careful, step-by-step work into smooth, automatic performance. That durability and resistance to change is what the phrase “difficult to delete” is pointing to, and it’s characteristic of the information processing view. By contrast, the audiolingual approach emphasizes habit formation through pattern drills and mimicking for automatic responses, which is related but focuses more on repetition-driven patterns rather than the broader cognitive shift to automaticity. The other options describe notions not centered on this specific process of sub-skills becoming automatic through information processing.

Automating language processing through repeated practice is what this item is testing. In the Information Processing Approach, learners move from consciously controlling sub-skills—like decoding, parsing sentences, and retrieving forms—to performing them automatically. With enough practice, these mental steps become proceduralized, drawing on long-term memory so they require less attention and can be executed quickly and fluently. Once sub-skills reach this automatic level, they’re hard to delete because they’ve become entrenched routines in processing language.

Think of it as building mental shortcuts: practice turns careful, step-by-step work into smooth, automatic performance. That durability and resistance to change is what the phrase “difficult to delete” is pointing to, and it’s characteristic of the information processing view.

By contrast, the audiolingual approach emphasizes habit formation through pattern drills and mimicking for automatic responses, which is related but focuses more on repetition-driven patterns rather than the broader cognitive shift to automaticity. The other options describe notions not centered on this specific process of sub-skills becoming automatic through information processing.