Kategorier: Alle - listening - evaluation - speaking - pronunciation

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The Audiolingual Method (ALM) focuses on developing accurate pronunciation and oral comprehension through a structured approach. Emphasizing listening and speaking skills, this method requires students to observe and repeat after the teacher, who acts as the central figure in the classroom.

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Roles

Student's Role
Oriented ones

Students are observers. After teachers' action they start to repeatation. They are active (speaking, repeating etc.) but with the direction of the teachers. Their mission is listening, repeating and memorizing.

Teacher's Role
Center of the class

In ALM classes, teachers are the center of the class. They are models who are observed carefully by the students. They adjust the techniques of the lesson and evaluate the students' performances.

Criticism(positive and negative ways)

These are mechanical dialogues and they ignore mimics and gestures.

Positive
It can be appropriate for crowded classes
Pronunciation skills are developed thanks to minimal pairs.
Speaking become fluent and comprehension skills are devloped.
Daily and culture based dialogues are used.
Negative
Mechanical learning

People shoul have ability to produce inartificial sentences.

Behaviorism
Structuralism
Repeating and drills

Background

In pursuit of WW II, USA became super power.
Travel to USA for study in university.
It is the first strong method because it has got theorical bases

Theorical base in Linguistics and theorical base in psychology. (Structuralism and Behaviorism)

Army method's findings were applied to ALM

Skills Emphasized

Listening
Speaking

Objectives

Reading and Writing
Knowledge of Culture
Oral Comprehension
Accurate Pronunciation

Activities

Drills
Grammar Games
Dialogues
Studies in Language Laboratories
Repeating Activities

Evaluation

Tests (multiple choices, fill in the blanks or true false)
Minimal Pairs Practises
Accuracy of mimic and pronunciation in dialogue practices
Dialogue Completion

Main topic

Advantages

Students know the culture of the language because it is learned with context.
Pupils can comprehend the others.
Speaking skills are developed

Disadvantages

Parroting causes standartization
Teacher centered classes.
Reading and writing skills are ignored.
Students just memorize and repeat. They don't know what they mean.
Pupils don't produce anything.
Dialogues are not normal dialogues. (in language laboratories)

Principles

Act Out
Drills are important

Drills can be applied in many ways such as chain drill, single or multiple slot substitution drills etc. Drill is a kind of repetition.

Subtopic
Errors are dangerous

Errors can be fossillized. So they need to be corrected immidiately.

Learning language is a native formation
Teacher is a native
L1 and L2 are kept apart
Learning language with context