Post on 21-Mar-2017
The audio-lingual methodThe audio-lingual method
Sabra bazai
The background of ALM history
In the first half of twentieth century.
World war ii (because of the military necessary)
Direct method didn’t take hold in us.
Us education institution is dedicated in reading approach.
National defensed college usa 1st used of this method
Language courses focus on oral skills →Army specialized program(ASTP)
1950s known as audio lingual method (structural linguistic + behavior psychology)
The audio-lingual approach dominated foreign language teaching in the 1950s aud 1960s
Suitable for…
• In small classes of mature
• Highly motivated students
The Audiolingual Method
structural linguistic theory
contrastive analysis behaviorism
• Errors should be avoided and corrected right away.
• Teacher can anticipate the learning of difficulties
(Sheep, ship)
Contrastive analysis
Structural patterns
Structural linguistic theory Structural patterns are taught using repetitive
drills.
CHARLES FRIES OF THE UNI OF MICHIGAN applying
principle from structural linguistic in
developing the method that language is
consisted with phonetic lexicon pattern and syntax
Behaviorism• S-R chain a process of habit
formation• Positive reinforcement• Mimicry Drills (repetition Drill ) T: I am going to school.
Ss: I am going to school.
Behavioral linguistic • B.F skinner (1904 -1990)
Stimuli response shaping reinforcement habit forming
Principles• 1. Instructions are given in the
target language. • 2. Language forms occur within A
context. • 3. Students’ native language
interferes as little aspossible.
• 4. Analogy provides A better foundation forlanguage learning than analysis
• 5. Errors are carefully avoided because they leadto the formation of bad habits.
Advantages of ALM: • Language learning is A process of
habit formation. • Students are given drills. • In this method students can make
sentence pattern without stopping to think.
• IN ALM students can increase their pronunciation and speaking ability.
• It achieves noticeable success in developing oral fluency.
• It can also improve their listening ability, in ALM sometimes teacher use tape and language lab to hear dialogue from it.
• This method promotes the use of ENGLISH for communication in everyday situation
Disadvantages of ALM:
• Students were not exposed to real or realistic language.
• This method is too rigid ,classes tend to drag
• Students complain about the boredom caused by endless pattern drills.
• Pupil turns into parrot because of repetition who can reproduce many things but never create anything new
• This method is time consuming
•Background. Theoretical background . OBJECTIVES
CONCLUSION