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AudiolingualMethod – MerveYağcı

The Audiolingual Method (ALM) emerged after World War II, influenced by the structuralism approach advocated by Charles Fries. This method emphasizes learning language through repetition and drills, drawing on findings from the Army Specialized Training Program (

AudiolingualMethod – MerveYağcı

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Areas and skills emphasized

Memorizing the structures
Lİstening

Disadvantages

Just memorizing
No normal conversation
Passive learners
Habit formation
No meaningful learning

Advantages

Contextual learning.
Culture is given with language
Errors are prevented and corrected

Goals

Long term
Native like production
Short term
Reading
Writing
Speaking
Listening

Scripts in red are emphasized in ALM.

Main features

Education in language labs
Memorizing without thinking
Purpose=Communication
Language 2 in context
Teacher based method

Critism

Too much things to do for teacher. They are acting like actor, trying to keep learners awake, controlling the learning, applying the techniques. It is tiresome for both sides. One side is conveying everything other side is memorizing everything.
Other skills are not given enough: Reading, Writing.
Lab environment is not natural. Learners can not communicate with each other and teacher naturally although actual goal of the method is communicate.
Behaviourism is not appropriate for human being. Learner should think and product something. They could not memorize forever.They can not understand meanings and product something new because they are out of thinking.

Role of

Learner just obeys
Learner imitates.
Teacher is model
Teacher acts.

Sample Activities

Memorizing
Drilling
Listen and repeat

Techniques

Use of minimal pairs

For example : so - saw

berry - very

sit - seat

Repetition
Drills
for more information and examples
Dialogue completion
Dialogue Memorization

Background

Findings in ASTP used in ALM
Charles Fries rejected DM and claimed structualism
After World War II, growing demand for learning english