AudiolingualMethod-IşınsuYılmaz

Students' roles

Learner is an organism that can be directed by skilled teachers/skilled training techniques.

Students have got very little control over the CONTENT and PACE.

Principles of the Audiolingual Method

Language is given within a context.

L1 and L2 are kept apart.

Teacher is a native speaker like MODEL

Language learning is a habit formation.

Prevent learners from making errors

Purpose of lang learning is communication

Pattern practice (drills) helps students to learn the lang

Student should overlearn the lang

Language can't be separated from culture

Speech is more important than the written from

Techniques of the Audiolingual Method

Dialogue memorization

Drills

Use of minimal pairs

Dialogue completion

Grammar games

Criticizm of the Audiolingual Method

Langyage Laboratories

Mechanical Learning

Drills

Behaviourism

Memorizing

Teacher centered

Structuralism

Rote learning

Teacher's role

Teacher is very active, the center

Teacher is a model

Teacher controls learning

Teacher monitors student's performance

Teacher keeps students awake with different techniques

Psychological Foundations of The Audio Lingual Method

Mechanical habit formation

Memorizing Drills

Effective learning is in the spoken form

Meaning is learnt in linguistic and cultural context and not in isolation. So teaching a language involves teaching the culture

Lesson Procedure of the Audiolingual Method

Listen

Repeat

Memorize

Adapt it to student's interest

Act out

Select the problem structure

Drill them

Repetation

Inflection

Replacement

Restatement

Explain

Follow up

Objectives of Audiolingual Method

Short term objectives

Oral comprehension

Accurate pronunciation

Writing

Reading

Long term objectives

Native like production