If you want to be more knowlegeble about the Method you can watch the video.
Audio Lingual Method-Rabia Güngör
Techniques
Complete the dialogue
grammer games
Drills
Drills help students to better understanding.
Teacher uses;
-repetition drills(students repeat words and sentences )
-Chain drills (teacher ask from students to complete sentences)
Dialogue Memorization
Disadvantages
There is no cognitive learning, students only repeat.
Writing and reading skills are weak in Audio Lingual Method.
Repetition can be boring and mindless for students.There should be cognitive learning.
Main topic
Advantages
Audio Lingual Method enable students to improve their listening and speaking skills.
Students expose to target language while repeating dialogues.
Learning is happening in cultural real context.
Background
Language laborataries were used very extensively in 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.
Explicit grammar rules are not given. Learning is inductive according to the Audio Lingual Method.
It's essential to teach culture while teaching language.
It's learning theory based on the principles of Behoviorism.
Language learning is a habbit formation according to Behoviorism theory and Students should overlearn sentences. Positive and negative reinforcement should be given to students to achieve learning.
Criticism
LOL
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.
Roles
example video
student's role
-The most essential duty of the students is to repeat afeter teacher.
-Students are listeners during the classes.
-Students are imitators of the teacher or the native speakers in the audio recordings.
teacher's role
-Teacher should control the learning. He should correct mistakes immediately.
-Teacher is active during classes.
-Teacher is a model for the students especially for pronunciation.
Emphasized skills
speaking
listening
