EFL class method: Audio Lingüístico.

UNIVERSIDAD LATINA DE COSTA RICA ENGLISH DEPARTMENT Didactics in English Teaching Facilitator: MSc. Carlos Mayorga Wilmer Quiros Pérez. Audio-lingual method. In the audio-lingual method the teacher looks that, the students use the target language to communicate, to achieve this, the student has to overlearn the language and be able to use it as natural as possible. It is necessary to create habits with the target language over the old habits built in the native language. For the application of this method the teacher is the leader in the classroom, he is the person in charge of direct and control the language and behavior of the students. Indeed the teacher has to be a good model for the students, because in this method the students are imitators of the teacher’s model. The Audio-lingual method introduce the vocabulary and structural patterns through the dialogues. The dialogues are teach over imitation and repetition. When the student successful response receive positively reinforce. Students reading and writing activity is based upon the oral activities, which carried out before. The interaction happen between students but is guided by the teacher and main interaction is between teacher and student, which are started by teacher. The language is viewed in daily speech pattern is emphasized. Its complexity is adjusted according to level of students. Culture includes as having everyday behavior and lifestyle of the target language speakers. The audio-lingual method present the four linguistic skills, but make an emphasis in the skills related to the oral

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UNIVERSIDAD LATINA DE COSTA RICAENGLISH DEPARTMENTDidactics in English TeachingFacilitator: MSc. Carlos Mayorga Wilmer Quiros Pérez.

Audio-lingual method.

In the audio-lingual method the teacher looks that, the students use the target language to communicate, to achieve this, the student has to overlearn the language and be able to use it as natural as possible. It is necessary to create habits with the target language over the old habits built in the native language.

For the application of this method the teacher is the leader in the classroom, he is the person in charge of direct and control the language and behavior of the students. Indeed the teacher has to be a good model for the students, because in this method the students are imitators of the teacher’s model.

The Audio-lingual method introduce the vocabulary and structural patterns through the dialogues. The dialogues are teach over imitation and repetition. When the student successful response receive positively reinforce. Students reading and writing activity is based upon the oral activities, which carried out before.

The interaction happen between students but is guided by the teacher and main interaction is between teacher and student, which are started by teacher.

The language is viewed in daily speech pattern is emphasized. Its complexity is adjusted according to level of students. Culture includes as having everyday behavior and lifestyle of the target language speakers.

The audio-lingual method present the four linguistic skills, but make an emphasis in the skills related to the oral expression. The pronunciation has an important role in this process, and is teach from the beginning.

The native language of the student might cause problem in the mastering of the target language, reason why the native language of the students is not used in the class.

The evaluation of the students’ knowledge can be measure by asking at the students to distinguish sounds between similarly sound-structured words and providing appropriate verb form in a sentence.

Usually the teacher is aware of the difficulties and student errors to be corrected immediately.