Audio-LingualMethod-CanselTunç
Aim : To teach how to communicate.
Criticism
Language laboratories
Drills
Memorization
Teacher centered method
Dialogues
Principles
1.Language is given within a context.
2.L1 and L2 are kept apart.
3.Language learning is a habit formation.
4.Student are not allowed to make mistake.
5.Drill are important for learning process.
6.Target language and its culture are taught together.
7.Listening and speaking skills are more important than the other skills.
Instructional Materials
Tape recorders
Audiovisual equipment.
Language laboratory
Teachers' Roles
Teachers are active.
They are dominant.
They control the direction and pace of learning.
They monitors and corrects the learners' performance.
They use various activities.
Students' Roles
They are viewed as organisms
They have little control over the content , style of learning ,pace
They are not encouraged to initiate interaction
Advantages
Speaking and listening skills are improved .
Both target language and its culture are learned together.
Language is given in contex
Disadvantages
Reading and writing skills are not improved well.
It's a teacher-centered method
Little interaction between students.
In laboratories student learn language on their own.
Repetition is a technique without thinking.
Activities
Dialogue
Minimal Pairs
Ship or sheep
Drills
Repetition
Inflection
Replacement
Restatement
Completion
transposition
Expansion
Transformation
Conraction