AudiolingualMethod – Buket Işık

Principles

Use drills to teach the lines of dialogue

Backward-up drill (repeat part by part)

Dialog Memorization ( take the role,switch the role)

Chain Drill(make students ask and answer question with eachother)

Multiple-slot-Substitution Drill(to fit cue phrase into the correct line)

Transformation Drill (to change a certain kind of sentence pattern to another)

Question-Answer Drill (students practise the target language with answering questions)

Repeat the language made as accurately and quickly as possible

Language learning is habit-formation.

Dialog memorization

Drills

Repetition

Inflection

Replacement

Restatement

Too rigid

Classes tend to drag.

It is not contextualized.

It is time-consuming.

Students have little or no control on their own output.

Little attention to reading and writing.

Background

The outbreak of World War II enabled the birth of Audio-lingual method.

Known as army method due to the effect of military

Behaviorist Psychology has a significant impact on learning priciples of audio lingual method.

The stimulus is the information about the topic

The response is student's reaction about foreign language

The Reinforcement is natural satisfaction of target language use.

Based on Leonard Bloomfield's technique of memorization and repetition.

The Role of The Teacher and The Student

Students

Teachers

The teacher controls the classroom.

Good at speaking

Cultural content

Purpose of communication

Criticism

It is a mechanical without thinking- Repeat after me

Teacher centered method. Students are inactive.

It is not suitable for human. Parrots do it."Repeat after me". It is not a learning.

Writing and reading skills are not very important in this method.

Only grammar is not appropriate for true learning.