AUDIOLINGUAL METHOD-Merve CESUR
ADVANTAGES
By repeating similiar sentences, students overlearn the sentences
Classrom is more lively
Speaking and listening are well developed
TEACHER'S ROLE
Teacher keeps students awake
Teacher watches students' performance
Teacher decides what students learn
Teacher is a model
Teacher is more dominant
TECHNIQUES of ALM
Grammar Games
Transformation Drill
A sentence s transformed by being made negative, affirmative, interrogative or changes can be happenned in tense, mood, voice etc.
Repetition
The students repeats aloud. They may repeat it again and add some new words to the sentence.
Ex:
I go to school.
I go to school everyday.
Multiple-slot substitution Drill
Teacher gives another word (cue) and the students put the words in different places of a sentence. If it is necessary, they change verb or subject.
Single-slot subtitution Drill
Teacher reads a sentence from the dialogue and gives another word (cue). Students put this new word in an appropriate place in the sentence which was given.
Expansion Drill
From the end to the beginning of the sentence
Dialogue Completion
Ex:
I took my coat and you....
I took my coat and you took yours.
Use of minimal pairs
ship-sheep
big-pig
buy-pie
Dialogue Memorization
ACTIVITIES
4. Finally, in pairs, they practice the dialogue
3. Students repeat the dialoge one by one
2. Students first listen the dialoge then they repeat after the teacher
1. Teacher gives some information about the dialogue
FEATURES
Lots of speaking
Memorization
Subtopic
Drills
BACKGROUND
it was the strongest method in terms of theory of language
Some techniques of ATSM were used in ALM
is based on behaviorist theory
Method was introduced in U.S, 1940s
CRITICISM
It would be much better if students could generate the dialogue
Reading and writing should be given more importance
Students should thing more critically
There is no cognitive learning
It is animal learning
DISADVANTAGES
Grammar is almost not improved
Teacher does not explain in details
It is not logical
STUDENTS' ROLE
They are imitators
They ae active
PRINCIPLES of ALM
Teacher is a native speaker like MODEL
Speech is more important than the written form
culture is learned within the language
Students should otomatically learn the language
Communication is very important
Learning is habit formation
of ALM
Long Term Objectives
Native like producer
Short Term Objectives
Reading
Writing
Accurate Pronounciation
Oral Comprehension
