THE AUDIO-LINGUAL METHOD

What is the History of the Audio-lingual Method? What is the Audio-lingual Method and its principal principles? What are the goals of the Audio-lingual Method?

What techniques are involved in this Method?

What are the advantages and disadvantages of the Audio-lingual Method?

WHAT IS THE HISTORY OF THE AUDIO-LINGUAL METHOD?

The United States involvement in World War II brought a significant change in the teaching of languages in U.S. schools. It quickly became apparent that the grammar-translation method had not produced people who were able to speak the foreign languages they had studied.

The method became very popular in the 1960s. Language laboratories began to surge, and students were required to listen to audiotapes and repeat dialogues that captured aspects of daily living.

WHAT IS THE AUDIO-LINGUAL METHOD AND ITS PRINCIPAL PRINCIPLES?

the audio-lingual method also called the oral method, acts as a supporting for improving the speaking skills, because it helps to pronounce a word in a correct form by using some drills like repetition, transformation, chain and some others that we will study later on in this research.

This method has a skinnerian characteristic which is the use of the stimulus-responsereinforcement.

this process is known as the 3p method of teaching (presentation-practice-production).

In this method, it is very important for teachers to have a good pronunciation skill, because they are modeling the pronunciation of their students, and if the teacher has mispronunciation mistakes, the students will make them too.

SOME OF THE MOST IMPORTANT PRINCIPLES

Language Learning is a process of habit formation. The more often something is repeated, the stronger the habit and the greater the Learning.
the purpose of Language Learning is to Learn how to use the Language to communicate.

the teacher shouLd be Like an orchestra leader; conducting, guiding and controlling the students behavior in the target Language. one of the Language teacher s major roles is that of model of the target language. Teachers should provide students with a good model. By listening how it supposed to sound, students shouLd be abLe to mimic the modeL.

WHAT ARE THE GOALS OF THE AUDIO-LINGUAL METHOD?

Using target language communicatively. Overlearn language so as to use it automatically without stopping to think. Learn the language by habit formation and language habits. Overcome old habits of native language.

WHAT TECHNIQUES ARE INVOLVED IN THIS METHOD?

-Dialogue Memorization -Backward build-up (expansion) -Repetition drill -Chain drill -Single-Slot Substitution drill -Multiple-Slot substitution drill -Use of the Minimal Pairs -Transformation drill

WHAT ARE THE ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF THE AUDIO-LINGUAL METHOD?

ADVANTAGES
The main skills to develop are listening and speaking. The students are more sensible to the changes in the intonation of a sentence, question, request, etc. Transformation drill helps to learn about the different kind of structures in the language.

DISADVANTAGES
Students turn into parrots that can produce many things but never create anything new.

Teachers got the tendency to use the audio-visual materials as a method by their own, instead of using them as a teaching aid.

Equipment and its use.

CONCLUSION
The Audio-lingual Method has become in one of the most used and useful methods to teach another language, and it is because, as we have seen, one of the goals of this Method is to practice the language, and that is what language students need, to practice the language.

UNIVERSIDAD CAPITAN GENERAL GERARDO BARRIOS. Km. 113 Carretera del Litoral, Desvo a Santa Mara Usulutn, El Salvador. PBX. (503) 2662-0846 LESSON PLAN Teachers name: Milton Orlando Martinez Date: Oct. 17th, 2013 Time: 15 min. Subject: English Section: A Unit: 3 Career: Bachelor Degree in English. Level: A 2
Teachin g Methods Activities Teaching Resources

Topics:

Principles of the Method

Techniques

Teacher

Students

Timing

The purpose of the language learning is to learn how to use the language to communicate.

Greeting. Chain Drill Give indications. Interact and practice with each other

Markers. Eraser. 5 min. Data show. Computer.

Places

The Audiolingual Method.

Teachers should provide students with a good model. By listening to how it is supposed to sound, students should be able to mimic the model.

Repetition

Play a video with a tongue twisted in order to show the Repeat the pronunciation. tongue twisted as 5 min. fast as possible. Explain the difference pronunciation between two similar words.

Whiteboard.
Visual aids.

Each language has a finite number of patterns. Pattern Minimal Pairs practice helps students to form habits that enable the students to use the patterns.

Pronounce two similar words and recognize their difference.

5 min.