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The Audio-Lingual Method

Content History Principles - Main Features - Objectives Techniques Advantages and Disadvantages

Before World war II

During World war II

After World war II

Charles C. Fries

Principles

Use target language

Modeling

Students repeat the dialogue

Errors corrected immediately

Single/multiple-slot substitution drills

Spoken/picture cues

Transformation/Question&Answer drills

Teacher poses the questions rapidly

Limited vocabulary

No grammar rules

Contrastive analysis

Limited written work

Principles

Objectives

The accurate pronunciation and grammar

The knowledge of vocabulary

The responding ability

The habits of learning language

Techniques of the Audio-lingual method Dialogue Memorization Backward Build-up (Expansion) Drill Repetition Drill Chain Drill Transformation Drill Single-slot Substitution Drill Multiple-slot Substitution Drill Question-and-answer Drill Use of Minimal Pairs Complete the Dialogue Grammar Game

Techniques of AL – Dialog Memorization

Person 2 Person 1

T: Hello. How are you?

S: Fine, thanks. And you?

T: Fine. Where are you going?

S: I’m going to the school. Would you like to come?

T: Sure. Let’s go together.

Techniques of AL – Dialog Memorization

Techniques of AL – Backward Build-up drill

teaching long lines of dialogues Breaking down the line into several parts Repeating a part of the sentence

I’m going to the post office.

post officegoing

I’m to the

Backward build-up drill

T: Repeat after me: post office.S: Post office.T: To the post office.S: To the post office.T: Going to the post office.S: Going to the post office.T: I’m going to the post office.S: I’m going to the post office.

Techniques of AL –Repetition Drill

Techniques of AL – Chain Drill To make students ask and answer

questions with each other.

Techniques of AL – Single/Multiple-slot Substitution Drill

To give cue phrases

To make other changes

To fit cue phrase into line

Substitute drill- Use the cue.

‘I’m going to the post office.’

1. single-slot substitution drill:

2. multiple-slot substitution drill:

S: ‘She is going to the post office.’

S: ‘She is going to the park.’

S: ‘I’m going to the bank.’The bank

Shethe park

Techniques of AL – Transformation Drill To change a certain kind of sentence pattern

to another form.

Statement Question

Active Passive

Affirmative Negative

Transformation drill

T: ‘They are going to the bank.’

S: ‘Are they going to the bank?’

or

T: Giang buys a new car.

S: A new car is bought by Giang.

Techniques of AL – Question & Answer Drill

Practicing the target language with answering questions and the question patterns.

Bank

T: Are you going to the bank?

S: Yes, I am. I’m going to the bank Library

T: Are you going to the zoo?

S: No, I’m not going to the zoo. I’m going to the library

Techniques of AL – Question & Answer Drill

Advantages

Effective to the beginners

Listening and speaking skills

Vocabulary learning

Quickly communicate

Disadvantages

Make advanced students bored

Limited language environment

Many students

in the class

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