Audio-Lingual Method (Army Method) by Orhan Kutluer

Audio-Lingual Method (Army Method)
by Orhan Kutluer

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Students Role

Students Role

Have just a little bit control over the lessons, context and pace of learning

Repeating the teacher.

Obey the rules

Ss are passive during the learning.

The Principles

The Principles

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Foreign language learning is basically a process of mechanical habit formation. The student are able to give correct response rather than by making mistake.Language skills are learned more effectively if the items to be learned in the target language are presented in spoken form before they are seen in written form. Aural-oral training is needed to provide the foundation for the development of other language skills.Drills can enable learners to form correct analogies. Hence the approach to the teaching of grammar is essentially inductive rather than deductive.The meaning that the words of a language have for the native speaker can be learned only in a linguistic and cultural context and not isolation.

Only the target language is used.

Choral Repetition

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The teacher models dialoges

Bacward build-up Drill is used.

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Prevention of Errors

Chain Driil is used.

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Always using of language to communicate

Students should overlearn

Grammar is not learned, but acquired.

Language Leanring is in habit form.

Historical Background and Some Differences among the Methods

Historical Background and Some Differences among the Methods

The Audio-Lingual method of teaching had its origins during World War II when it became known as the Army method.

The Audio-Lingual method of teaching had its origins during World War II when it became known as the Army method.

It is also called the Aural oral approach. It is based on the structural view of language and the behaviorist theory of language learning.

The audiolingual approach to language teaching has a lot of similarities with the direct method.

Both were considered as a reaction against the shortcomings of the Grammar Translation method, both reject the use of the mother tongue and both stress that speaking and listening competences preceded reading and writing competences.

But there are also some differences. The direct method highlighted the teaching of vocabulary while the audiolingual approach focus on grammar drills

Disadvantages

Disadvantages

Too Rigid

Classes tend to Drag

It's not contextualized

It's time-consuming

Ignores the writing and reading skills

Parroting (Repeating) is not good about creativity

Teacher's Roles

Teacher's Roles

Teacher is a model

Controller of the learning

Keep students awake and make them attend to lesson

Teacher monitors students performance

The Techniques

The Techniques

Dialog Memorization

Grammar Games

Minimal Pairs

Driils

Question and Answer Driil

Single/Multiple-slot substitution Drill

Repetition Drill

Backward build-up Drill

Transformation Drill

Repetition

Completing Dialogs

Contextual Referances

Developed during World War II. in USA

Based on the Behavioral Psychology

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Human behavior is shaped by habits, hence learning a language can become a habit.

Positive/Negative reinforcement develop incorrect habits

Advantages

Advantages

Subtopic

Correct Behavioral Patterns

Fluent adn Correct Language

Advanced Listening and Speaking

Communicative Language is acquired.

It aims at developing listening and speaking skills which is a step away from the Grammar translation method

Always Repeating and It's not a contextual

Multimedias

Some Visiual Examples About Audio-Lingual Method

Diane Larsen Freeman's Explanations and An example of lesson in Army Method