audiolingualmethod-meryemduran

CHARACTERISTICS

Proposed by the mid. 1950's

Vocabulary paterns

Imitation and repetition

Drills

Possitive reinforcements

Grammar induced/structural patterns

Cultural information

Usage of the only target language

BASED ON

STRUCTURAL LINGUISTIC

Lexical items

Phonological units

Grammatical units

BEHAVIORAL PSYCHOLOGY

Habit formation

Stimulus

Response

Reinforcement

CRITICISM

ADVANTAGES

Control over the oral ability

Emphasizing sentence production

Constructing through the creation of correct behavioral patterns

Making language teaching possible to large groups of learners

DISADVANTAGES

Lack of effectiveness

Boredom caused by endless pattern drills

Student's having little control over their learning

Teacher's domination

Teacher-oriented materials

It's too rigid and time consuming

It's not contexualized

TECHNIQUES

Dialogue memorization

Backward build-up drill

Repetetion drill

Chain drill

Single/Multiple slot substitution drill

Question and answer drill

Minimal pairs

Complete the dialogue

Transformation

Grammar game

Expansion drill

Clause combination

ROLES

TEACHER'S

To use language communicatively

Leader,provides o good model

To give possitive reinforcement

STUDENT'S

Need to overlearn the target language

Repeat the language as acurately and quickly as possible