The Audiolingual Method

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Have you ever heard about this language teaching method? If not, don't worry, we will explain you. 📚🙋

First, what are the goals objectives of the teachers using this method?

The main objective of teachers that use this method is, via teaching vocabulary and grammatical patterns and through dialogues, to enable students to respond quickly and accurately in spoken language  without stopping to think into the target language. The dialogues are learnt through repetition and such drills as repetition, backward build-up, chain, substitution, transformation, and question-and-answer are conducted based upon the patterns in the dialogue .

Second, what are the roles that both teacher and student play in this method? 

In the Audio-lingual Method the teacher has an active role as he is the sole authority to control and direct the whole learning programme. He monitors and corrects the students’ performance. He is also responsible for providing the students with a good model for imitation. The teacher endeavours to keep the students attentive by varying drills and tasks and choosing relevant situations to practice structures. 

And the students play a passive role as they don’t have any control over the content or the method of learning. The students are mere imitators of the teacher's model. Their sole objective is to follow the teacher’s direction and respond as precisely and as promptly as possible.

Third, what are some characteristics of the teaching-learning process?

a) In this method the pronunciation is taught firstly.
b) Then the vocabulary is taught within the dialogues and listening and speaking skills take the most attention.
c)  The teacher reads a dialogue by modeling it . Students learn the target language within a concrete context that will enable them to relate what they learn to real-life learning environments.
d) Students repeat the dialogue. Through repetition students can use the target language automatically, and fluently as well.
e)  Some words or phrases are changed in the dialogue. Through drills such as single-slot substitution, multipleslot substation, and transformation students are given the opportunity to produce speech in the target language, furthermore, these patterns will let them see how language functions. Students learn how to respond correctly when they practice the drills.




Comments

  1. Julio Quispe MamaniJanuary 4, 2021 at 8:12 PM

    This topic is very good for the development of students since they can know and learn more about vocabularies through dialogue.

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