Audio Lingual Method-Rabia Güngör

Emphasized skills

Roles

-Teacher is a model for the students especially for pronunciation.

-Teacher is active during classes.

-Teacher should control the learning. He should correct mistakes immediately.

-Students are imitators of the teacher or the native speakers in the audio recordings.

-Students are listeners during the classes.

-The most essential duty of the students is to repeat afeter teacher.

Criticism

As can be seen, Audio Lingual Method's goals are not sufficient for effective language learning as for it is focused on only speaking and listening skills. Reading and writing skills can also be improved during learning process. Another essential issue is that there should be cognitive learning, repeating is not enough and it can be boring for students. Language laboratories are not normal for learning language , there should be interaction during learning process.On the other hand, ALM may be useful for learners who want to learn language only to speak and listen, they may save their time. Real dialogues may be effective and interesting for learners.

Background

It's learning theory based on the principles of Behoviorism.

It's essential to teach culture while teaching language.

Explicit grammar rules are not given. Learning is inductive according to the Audio Lingual Method.

The most important goal of the Audio Lingual Method is to make students able to use the target language automatically without thinking while speaking and listening.

Language laborataries were used very extensively in Audio Lingual Method.

Students expose to target language while repeating dialogues.

Learning is happening in cultural real context.

Audio Lingual Method enable students to improve their listening and speaking skills.

Main topic

Repetition can be boring and mindless for students.There should be cognitive learning.

Writing and reading skills are weak in Audio Lingual Method.

There is no cognitive learning, students only repeat.

Techniques