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Audio-Lingual Method: Language Learning Techniques and Principles

Explore the foundational principles and techniques of the Audio-Lingual Method, emphasizing structured drills, teacher-student interactions, and the role of students' first language in language learning. Discover how this method prioritizes speaking and listening skills, discourages L1 use, and promotes habit formulation for language acquisition. Learn about the nature of interaction in the classroom and the advantages and disadvantages of this method in language education.

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Audio-Lingual Method: Language Learning Techniques and Principles

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  1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVkaGw_M5mA

  2. Q1: What are the principles of the Audio-lingual Method? Q2: What are the techniques used in class? Q3:What is the role of the teacher/student? Q4: What is the nature of interaction (teacher-student/student-student)? Q5: What is the role of the students’ first language?

  3. Q1: What are the principles of the Audio-lingual Method?

  4. Audiolingual Method Structural linguistic theory Contrastive analysis Aural-oral procedures Behaviorist psychology

  5. In structural linguistics… [P]rimarily what is spoken and only secondarily what is written (Brooks, 1964) Language is speech, not writing. Teach the language, not about the language A language is what its native speakers say, not what someone thinks they ought to say (Moulton, 1961)

  6. In Behaviorist psychology (Skinner, 1957; Brown, 1980)… The human being is an organism capable of a wide repertoire of behaviors A stimulus triggers a response Reinforcement serves to mark the response as being appropriate or inappropriate and encourages the repetition (or suppression) of the response in the future

  7. Speaking and listening competence preceded reading and writing competence. • Use of L1 is highly discouraged in the classroom. • The development of language skills is a matter of habit formulation. • Students practice particular patterns of language through structured dialogue and drill until response is automatic.

  8. Structured patterns in language are taught using repetitive drills. • The emphasis is on having students produce error free utterances. • This method of language learning supports kinesthetic learning styles. • Only everyday vocabulary and sentences are taught.

  9. Q2: What are the techniques used in class?

  10. Backward build up drill (expansion drill) • Repetition drill • Chain drill • Single-slot substitution drill • Multiple-slot substitution drill • Transformation drill • Question-and-answer drill • Use of minimal pairs • Complete the dialogue • Grammar game

  11. Q3:What is the role of the teacher/student? Q4: What is the nature of interaction (teacher-student/student-student)? Q5: What is the role of the students’ first language?

  12. Q: What are the advantages and disadvantages?

  13. Human language use is not imitated behavior but is created anew from underlying knowledge of abstract rules (Chomsky, 1966) • Basic method of teaching is repetition, speech is standardized and pupils turn into parrots who can reproduce many things but never create anything new or spontaneous.

  14. Ss are unable to transfer knowledge to real communication outside the classroom 17:17 http://www.56.com/u25/v_NjAwMDU4OTQ.html

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