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Audio Lingual Method: ELD 2123 Approaches and Methods in TESL

The Audio Lingual Method emphasizes oral communication skills over reading and writing. It uses repetition and drills to teach grammar patterns and vocabulary through dialogues. The teacher directly controls classroom interactions and corrects student errors. Culture and language skills are taught in a graded, sequential manner starting with listening and speaking. The goal is for students to internalize grammar patterns and use the language automatically.

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Audio Lingual Method: ELD 2123 Approaches and Methods in TESL

The Audio Lingual Method emphasizes oral communication skills over reading and writing. It uses repetition and drills to teach grammar patterns and vocabulary through dialogues. The teacher directly controls classroom interactions and corrects student errors. Culture and language skills are taught in a graded, sequential manner starting with listening and speaking. The goal is for students to internalize grammar patterns and use the language automatically.

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ELD 2123 Approaches and Methods in TESL

AUDIO LINGUAL METHOD


What is Audio Lingual Method ?
Is a technique of foreign-language instruction
that emphasizes audio lingual skills over
reading and writing and is characterized by
extensive use of pattern practice.
Main characteristics
Suggests that students be taught phonology,
morphology and syntax of the language. All
these patterns can be learned through
contrastive analysis of the differences between
the native tongue and the target language,
which helps students to acquire new language
easier.
Additional characteristics
New vocabulary and structural patterns are
presented through dialogues.
The dialogues are learned through imitation
and repetition.
Drills are conducted based upon the patterns
present in the dialogue.
Students successful responses are positively
reinforced.
Grammar is induced
Explicit grammar rules are not provided.
Cultural information is contextualized in
the dialogues or presented by the
teacher.
Students reading and written work is
based upon the oral work they did
earlier.
The Goals
Wants the students to be able to use the target
language communicatively.
They believe that the students need to
overlearn the target language, to learn to use
it automatically without stopping to think.
Achieve by forming new habits in the
language target language and overcoming
the old habits of their native language.
The Role of the Teacher ?
According to Richards and Rodgers ( 1987 ),
teachers must provide varieties of drills and tasks to
keep learners motivation.
Is like an orchestra leader.
Directing and controlling the language behaviour
of her/his students.
Responsible for providing her students with a good
model for imitation.
Teacher should also minimize vocabulary until all
common and simple structures will be learned.
Teach new vocabulary only in the context.
The Role of Students
Imitators of the teachers model or the tapes
she/he supplies of model speakers.

The Role of Instructional Materials


At the early stages of learning, a students textbook
is withheld.
However, teachers still have to access to a
teachers book that provides lesson structure and
materials.
Other materials gradually can be introduced as
soon as students be able to memorize and reproduce
simple language patterns.
The Nature of Student Teacher
Interaction?
Is teacher directed.
Most of the interaction is between teacher and
students
Is initiated by the teacher.

The Feelings the Student Dealt


with ?
No principles of the method that relate to this
are.
How is the Language Viewed ?
Has been influenced by descriptive linguistics.
Every language is seen as having its own
unique system.
Comprises several different levels
1. Phonological
2. Morphological
3. Syntactic
Each level has its own distinctive patterns.
How is Culture Viewed ?
Everyday speech is emphasized.
The level of complexity of the speech is
graded.
However, beginner students are presented with
only simple patterns.
Culture consists of the everyday behaviour
and lifestyle of the target language speakers.
What Areas of Language are
Emphasized ?
Vocabulary is kept to a minimum while the
students are mastering the sound system and
grammatical patterns.
Grammatical pattern is not the same as a
sentence.
What Language Skills are Emphasized ?
The natural order of skills presentation is
adhered to
1. Listening
2. Speaking
3. Reading
4. Writing
The oral skills receive most of the attention.
What students write is what they have been
first introduce to orally.
Pronounciation is taught from the beginning.
What is the Role of the Students
Native Language ?
Are thought to interfere with the students
attempts to master the target language.
Therefore, the target language is used in
classroom and not the students native
language.
How is Evaluation Accomplished ?
Teacher expect students to distinguish sounds
between similarity sound-structured words.
Providing appropriate verb form in a sentence.
Students learning progress is evaluated rather
than given formal tests.
How Does the Teacher Respond to
Student Errors ?
Teacher generally in aware of students
difficulties and errors so that they are
immediately corrected.
The Advantages
It was the first method to have a theory.
It made language learning accessible to a large
groups of ordinary learners.
It was the first method to lay stress on the
development of language syntax, whereas the
other methods were preoccupied with
morphology and vocabulary.
Developing simple techniques and making use
of language lab.
The Disadvantages
No creativity.
Students repeat and memorize what they do
not understand.
The techniques used by this method become
tedious and boring and causing fatigue.
Make advanced students bored.
How to imply into Malaysian classroom

Tongue twister
Spelling bee
Music
Story telling

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