The Audio-Lingual Method is an oral-based language learning approach focusing on repetitive drills of grammatical sentence patterns, rooted in Skinner's behavioral psychology. This method aims to help students use the target language communicatively by forming new linguistic habits and overcoming old ones.
Student-student interaction →Chain drills and dialogues
What areas of language are emphasized? What language skills are emphasized?
The natural order of skills presentation is adhered to : listening, speaking, reading, and writing
Subtopic
The oral/aural skills receive most of the attention .
Vocabulary is kept to a minimum while the students are mastering the sound system and grammatical patterns.
Main topic
Teachers want their students to be able to use the target language communicatively
Forming new habits through overcoming the old habit.
Overlearning →automatically without stopping to think
disadvatages of the audiolingual method
some charactesistic of the method
Here are some characteristics of the method:
language learning is habit-formation,
mistakes are bad and should be avoided, as they are considered bad habits,
language skills are learned more effectively if they are presented orally first, then in written form,
analogy is a better foundation for language learning than analysis,
the meanings of words can be learned only in a linguistic and cultural context.
introduction
Audio-Lingual Method is an oral-based approach.
Based on behavioral psychology (Skinner).
It drills students in the use of grammatical sentence patterns.