AudiolingualMethod-MerveYağcı
Background
After World War II, growing demand for learning english
Charles Fries rejected DM and claimed structualism
Findings in ASTP used in ALM
Techniques
Dialogue Memorization
Dialogue completion
Drills
for more information and examples
Repetition
Use of minimal pairs
Sample Activities
Listen and repeat
Drilling
Memorizing
Role of
Teacher is model
Teacher acts.
Learner just obeys
Learner imitates.
Critism
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.
Lab environment is not natural. Learners can not communicate with each other and teacher naturally although actual goal of the method is communicate.
Other skills are not given enough: Reading, Writing.
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.
Main features
Teacher based method
Language 2 in context
Purpose=Communication
Memorizing without thinking
Education in language labs
Goals
Short term
Listening
Speaking
Writing
Reading
Long term
Native like production
Advantages
Errors are prevented and corrected
Culture is given with language
Contextual learning.
Disadvantages
No meaningful learning
Habit formation
Passive learners
No normal conversation
Just memorizing
Areas and skills emphasized
Speaking
Lİstening
Memorizing the structures