Teaching Method

THE
AUDIO-LINGUAL
METHOD

Class: CDAV09-A2
 Definition

 Emphasis listening and speaking

 Using :
◦ Dialogues as the main form for language presentation
◦ Drills as the main training techniques
 Mother tongue discouraged in the classroom
 Not focus on teaching vocabulary
 Audio Lingual = Aural-Oral method
 Theoretical

 Theoretical base on linguistics and psychology

 Structural linguistics + behavioral psychology
were incorporated
 It is comprised of several different levels:
phonological, morphological, and syntactic
 Helping learners to respond correctly to stimuli
through shaping and reinforcement
 Purpose

Help learners:
 Use the target language communicatively and
automatically
 Develop aural/oral skill
– Overcome their native language
– Become a target language speakers
 Objective
Learners can:
 Short-range: training in
◦ Improve listening/reading comprehensive
◦ Accurate pronunciation

 Long-range:
◦ Ability to use target language spontaneously
◦ Form new habits in the target language
◦ Break out of the old habits of native language
 Role-playing

 Teacher:
◦ Orchestra leader
◦ Good model

 Students:
◦ Imitating the teacher’s model/the tapes teacher
supplies
◦ Responding as accurately and as rapidly as possible
 Activities
 Dialog memorization
 Backward build- up drill
 Repetition drill
 Chain drill
 Single- slot & multiple- slot substitution drill
 Transformation drill
 Question and answer drill
 Use of minimal pairs
 Complete the dialog
 Grammar game
 Strengths and weakness
Strengths Weakness
 Making language  Vocabulary is limited
teaching possible to  No explicit grammar
large groups to learners instruction
 Emphasizing sentence  Boredom
production  Learners having little
 Development of oral
control over their
ability learning
 Helping learners can  Teacher’s domination of
react quickly in target the class
language.
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