AudiolingualMethod-DenizKiremit
General Features
It is based on speaking and listening skills.
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Teachers are model in the classroom.
Students are quite active in the lesson.
Language laboratories are extensively used.
PSYCHOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS OF THE ALM
Mechanical habit formation.
Effective learning is in the spoken form.
Meaning is learned in linguistic and cultural context.
Memorizing drills.
TECHNIQUES
Grammar games
Dialogue memorization
Dialogue completion
Use of minimal pairs
sheep-ship
big-pig
CRITICISM OF THE ALM
Negatives
Memorization
Behaviourism
Teacher centered
Language laboratories
Structuralism
Rote learning
Lack of the writing and reading skills
Positives
Fuent Speaking
Developed speaking and listening skills
ADVANTAGEOUS
Fluent Speaking
Pronunciations are successful.
Students can learn the culture of language
Method is apropriate for large groups
DISADVANTAGEOUS
It is not cognitive learning
There is no interaction between students
Subtopic
BACKGROUND
SECOND WORLD WAR
need for people to learn foreign languages rapidly for military purposes
So Army Method became popular.
Because of it's success Army Method's foundings applied to ALM
TEACHERS' ROLES
model
active and center of everything
control learning
monitor ss' performance
STUDENTS' ROLES
can be directed by skilled teachers all the way
Passive and act after teacher
PRINCIPLES OF THE ALM
Purpose of language learning is communication
Language can not be seperated from culture.
Language is given in a context.
SS should overlearn the languages.
Drill help ss to learn the language.
Speech is more significant than writing.