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作者:Yagmur Damla Aslan 11 年以前

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The audiolingual method, also known as the Army Method, emerged during World War II in the United States to address the language needs of migrants. It is grounded in behaviorist theory, focusing on reinforcement to shape correct language use.

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AUDIOLINGUAL METHOD (Yagmur Damla ASLAN)

Noam Chomsky's Criticism: "Language is not habit, language is creative and generated through our underlying knowledge of abstract rules."

Goal: The general goal of the Audiolingual Method is to enable the target language communicatively.

Advantages & Disadvantages

Disadvantages: - Speaking or any kind of spontaneous creative output was missing from the curriculum. - Students lacked an active role in the classroom. - Very little attention is paid to communication. - Very little attention is paid to content. - Process of learning only focus in speaking.
ROLES: Teacher-based learning. Student is mostly inactive in class.
Advantages: + Learners be able speaking the target language comunicatively. + Learners have no difficulties to understand the lesson. + Learners are able to give correct response directly. + Learners more concern about the combination between behavioral psychology and linguistic.

Emphasis is mostly on the: Speaking & Listening Skills Then on the: Reading & Writing Skills.

Activity Types: 1) Dialogue Memorization 2) Backward build-up drill 3) Repetition 4) Chain 5) Single-slot substitution 6) Multiple-slot substitution 7) Transformation 8) Question and answer 9) Use of minimal pairs 10) Complete the dialogue 11) Grammar game

Principles: 1) Language forms occur most naturally with in a context. 2) Teacher uses only the target language in class. 3) Teacher uses drills to teach the lines of dialogues. 4) Students repeat the language as accurately and quickly as possible. 5) Teacher should prevent students from making mistakes. 6) No grammar rules are given. They are taught through examples and drills.

Background It was developed in the United States, during the World War II, to be able to supply the language needs of the students who migrated to America.

What is Audiolingual Method? -The audio-lingual method, Army Method is a style of teaching that is based on behaviorist theory, which professes that certain traits of living things, and in this case humans, could be trained through a system of reinforcement; correct use of a trait would receive positive feedback while incorrect use of that trait would receive negative feedback.

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