AUDIO LINGUAL METHOD
EVALUATION
True-False
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Minimal Pairs Activities
Roles of the teacher and the student
Student
Passive
As the structuralism is taught in behaviourism , the students just obey to the the teacher.
Little control
The students have very little control over the context and pace.
Teacher
Controls learning
Center
Native-speaker-like model
Active
The teacher monitors students' performances , keeps students awake with diffirent techniques.
Areas and Skills Emphasized
Reading
Speaking
Writing
Listening
Techniques
Listening and Repeating
Use of Minimal Pairs
Ship-Sheep , Big-Pig
Dialogue Completion
Drills
Question-and-answer
Multiple-slot Substition
Single-slot Substition
The teacher changes a word in the sentence.
Transformation
Teacher wants the students to make sentences positive, negative , passive, active etc.
Repetition
Backward Build-up
Dialogue Memorization
GOALS
To pronounce accurately
To get information about the culture
To overlearn the language
To listen and repeat
To use the target language communicatively and automatically.
SAMPLE ACTIVITIES
Dialogues
Grammar Games
Listen and Repeat
ADVANTAGES
Speaking and listening skills are developed
Native-speaker-like model teacher
Learning accurate pronounciation of the words
Learning the culture besides the language
DISADVANTAGES
Ignoring reading and writing skills
Too much parroting
Memorization
CRITISIM
+
Students learn the language and culture in context
Students get familiar with the daily dialogues in target language
It provides a good pronounciation
-
Memorizing , not cognitive learning
Drills are not useful
Explicit grammar rules are not provided
It is a mechanical learning
Just structuce is taught
Students are passive
BACKGROUND
It was a dominant foreign language teaching method in the US
It had its origins during the World War II
ALM is the first strong method in terms of theory
