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AUDIO LINGUAL METHOD

EVALUATION

True-False

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Minimal Pairs Activities

Roles of the teacher and the student

Student

Passive

As the structuralism is taught in behaviourism , the students just obey to the the teacher.

Little control

The students have very little control over the context and pace.

Teacher

Controls learning

Center

Native-speaker-like model

Active

The teacher monitors students' performances , keeps students awake with diffirent techniques.

Areas and Skills Emphasized

Reading

Speaking

Writing

Listening

Techniques

Listening and Repeating

Use of Minimal Pairs

Ship-Sheep , Big-Pig

Dialogue Completion

Drills

Question-and-answer

Multiple-slot Substition

Single-slot Substition

The teacher changes a word in the sentence.

Transformation

Teacher wants the students to make sentences positive, negative , passive, active etc.

Repetition

Backward Build-up

Dialogue Memorization

GOALS

To pronounce accurately

To get information about the culture

To overlearn the language

To listen and repeat

To use the target language communicatively and automatically.

SAMPLE ACTIVITIES

Dialogues

Grammar Games

Listen and Repeat

ADVANTAGES

Speaking and listening skills are developed

Native-speaker-like model teacher

Learning accurate pronounciation of the words

Learning the culture besides the language

DISADVANTAGES

Ignoring reading and writing skills

Too much parroting

Memorization

CRITISIM

+

Students learn the language and culture in context

Students get familiar with the daily dialogues in target language

It provides a good pronounciation

-

Memorizing , not cognitive learning

Drills are not useful

Explicit grammar rules are not provided

It is a mechanical learning

Just structuce is taught

Students are passive

BACKGROUND

It was a dominant foreign language teaching method in the US

It had its origins during the World War II

ALM is the first strong method in terms of theory