Stated simply, the new school believed that language, like riding a bicycle, was a set of habits which could be implanted through a stimulus response method of instruction. In practice this meant rote memorization and repeating sentences.
這派學者認為，語言學習就好比騎自行車或彈鋼琴，是種經由刺激﹘﹘反應而產生的「習慣」，因此，在方法上十分強調死記與復誦。