She never spoke in English. Oral-Situational approach is a structural primacy method whose goal is to teach a practical command of L2 trying to copy the way children acquire L1. The learner is expected to apply L2 outside the classroom and there should be a move from oral use to an automatic use in speech, reading and writing. There is some guided student interaction, but the teacher controls the input. The students cannot choose the subject.
Errors are to be avoided at all costs.
The teacher corrects them immediately. The AL method correlates to a behavioristic model of learning employing the Stimulus, Response, and Reinforcement pattern. The teacher role is to be an actor, a modeler, and a reinforcer. The teacher also determines the context for the oral presentation. A drawback is that it doesnt necessarily reflect real-life situations.