Ollendorffian

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   relating to Heinrich Ollendorff or his method of language teaching through highly repetitive questions, answers, and substitutions

   The textbook's Ollendorffian drills repeat one grammatical pattern with dozens of new nouns.

From the surname of the German language teacher Heinrich Gottfried Ollendorff + -ian ('relating to'). His nineteenth-century method taught languages through graduated question-and-answer exercises, so later figurative uses can suggest mechanical repetition.

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