Audio Lingual Method

Audio Lingual Method

Techniques

Chain Drill

r

>Make students ask & answer questions with each other>Check the students' speechs

Dialog Memorization

r

>Student takes the role of one person in dialogue and the other studen takes another and memorize the dialogues>Let them switch the role and memorize vice versa>Half of the class takes one role and the other half takes another role>Some pairs of students may perform the dialogue for the rest of the class

Backward Build-up Drill

r

Teaching long lines of dialogues:>Break down the sentence into several parts>Repeat a part of the sentence>Let the students expand what they've repeated part by part until they are able to repeat thw whole sentence

Grammar Games

r

>Give cue phrases, one at time, that fits into different slots in the dialogue line.>Let the students fit those cue phrases, or words, into line where it belongs and let them say the line loudly

The Role of Teacher

Teacher is very active, s/he is the center such an orchestra leader!

Teacher is very active, s/he is the center such an orchestra leader!

The teacher is a model

The teacher is a model

Teacher controls learning

Teacher controls learning

Teacher keep ss awake with different techniques

Disadvantages

Students are being parrots by memorizing and repeating too many times, but can't know the excat meaning of what they are sayi

Students are being parrots by memorizing and repeating too many times, but can't know the excat meaning of what they are saying

Stundents can't efficently improve their reading & writing skills

Teachers are oppressive

Criticism

Actually teachers are also being parrots!

Actually teachers are also being parrots!

Insufficient reading and writing experience for students

Insufficient reading and writing experience for students

Language Laboratories

Language Laboratories

Teacher centered

Teacher centered

Background

It's an adapted version of Army Method

It's an adapted version of Army Method

This method pays great importance to listening and speaking

This method pays great importance to listening and speaking

It's used for being familiar with everyday and spoken language of target language

The Role of Students

Students are organisms that capable of taking form by a teacher and techniques

Students are organisms that capable of taking form by a teacher and techniques

Students have got very little control over the content and pace

Students have got very little control over the content and pace

Students are not more than listeners

Students are not more than listeners

Advantages

Native like speaking ability is being acquiring

Speaking and listening skills are improving

Students make less mistakes because this method don't accepts mistakes

Students learnd the accurate pronunciation of words

Students learn the everyday language of the target language