The Audiolingual Method is a language teaching approach that emphasizes the importance of listening and speaking over reading and writing. This method relies heavily on drills and repetition to teach grammar and vocabulary.
As foreign students migrate to study in America after World War 2
OBJECTIVES
SHORT TERM OBJ.
Oral comprehension
Accurate pronouncion
Writing
Reading
LONG TERM OBJ.
Native like production
(speaking as much as a native speaker can)
TECHNIQUES
Transformation
Grammar games
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwPToVpTHDM
Diologue completion
Use of minimal pairs
ship/sheep pin/bin buy/pie
Drills
-Backward build up drill
(sentence coming back to start)
-Repetition drill
-Single shot substitution drill
(I'm going to school. I'm going to home.
-Multiple shot substitution drill
(I'm going to school. I'm cooking the meal.
-Question and anser drill
Diologue memorization
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNqhhIaBPXU
PRINCIPALS
Purpose of language is communication
Prevent learners from making mistakes
L1 and L2 kept apart
Teacher is native speaker as model
Language can be seperated from the language
Speech is more important than the written form
Drills help the student's learning
Language learning is habit information
Giving the L2 in context
ROLES
STUDENTS' ROLE
have little control, immitate, act out
TEACHER'S ROLE
over controller, model, active,monitor
LESSON PROCEDURE
Follow up
(givinf homewrork or extra work)
Explain
Drill them
Select the problem
Act out
Adopt it to ss's interest
Memorize
Repeat
Listen
SKILLS
Speaking
Listening
Writing
Reading
DISADVANTAGES
Teacher is dominant over the class and the students are in the background.
So many time is consumed while drillings are done (e.g repetition)
Individual learning can't be applied.
It hinders writing and reading abilities as it only practices listening and writing.
Students are not exposed to real or realistic language and therefore unlikely to produce natural sounding language themselves.
ADVANTAGES
Grammer structures and vocabulary are successfully taught.
Learning the language with its culture helps them to adopt it meaningfully.
Oral comprehension helps students to practice the target language frequently with daily conversations.
