approach was British applied linguists as a reaction Reading Approach and its lack o emphasis on oral aural skills; it enjoyed popularity during the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s. Similarities can be found between the Direct and Situational Approaches but a great deal has been added to it from the works of British functional linguists, especially JR Firth, who believed that language form is determined by its context and situation (Celce-Murcia, 2001). . The theory of teaching approach is characterized as a type of British "Structuralism" and its theory of learning is a type of behaviorist habit-learning theory. In this method all lexical and grammatical items are presented and practiced in situations (e.g. At the supermarket, at the at the post office). The vocabulary items are chosen according to the situations being practiced. Vocabulary selection procedures are followed to ensure that an essential general service vocabulary is covered (Richards & Rodgers, 2003). Oral-Situational Approach and Audiolingualism share a great criticisms and like the Audiolingual Approach the view of language teaching and learning underlying the.