methodology..The Audio-Lingual Method

Techniques and Principles”
In Language Teaching

The Audio-Lingual Method

1 Which of the following techniques follows from the principles of the Audio-Lingual Method, and which ones don't? Explain the reasons for your answer.

a) The teacher asks beginning-level students to write a composition about the system of transportation in their home countries. If they need a vocabulary word that they don't know, chey are told to look in a bilingual dictionary for a translation.

b) Toward the end of the third week of the course, the teacher gives students a reading passage. The teacher asks the students to read the passage and to answer certain questions based upon it. The passage contains words and structures introduced during the first threeweeks of the course.

c) The teacher tells the students that they must add an V to third person singular verbs in the present tense in English. She then gives the students a list of verbs and asks them to change the verbs into the third person singular present tense form.

Answer: My choice is the letter (b) because it applies the principle of the audio lingual method by reading the reading given to the students who will repeat with the help of the teacher all those words mispronounced, instead the letter (a) and (c) they are related to writing.


2 Some people believe that knowledge of a first and second language can be helpful to learners who are trying to learn a third language. What would an Audio-Lingual teacher say about this? Why?

All the teachers are prepared to receive students who aspire to study a third language and they would do it in a very professional way using all the necessary tools to achieve the objective, and waiting for the student to answer in an expected way and in that way not three or four languages but all who want.


B Apply what you have understood about the Audio-Lingual Method.

This method teaches us to repeat and repeat the mispronounced phrases as many times as possible so that the student can memorize and remember the words: "the full bit the wolf" repeat the word "full as" bite "is rare for this reason it is repeated so many times.

1 Read the following dialog. What subsentence pattern is it trying to teach?

 SAM Lou's going to go to college next fall.
B ETTY Where is he going?
SAM He's going to Stanford.
BETTY What is he going to study?
SAM Biology. He's going to be a doctor.
Prepare a series of drills (backward build-up, repetition, chain, singleslot substitution, multiple-slot substitution, transformation, and question- and-answer) designed to give beginning level EFL students some practice with this structure. If the target language that you teach is not english, you may wish to write your own dialog first. It is not easy to prepare drills, so to check yours, you might want to try giving them to some other teachers.

Lili Katty ate pizza yesterday.
Sara, when did you eat pizza?
Lili was very tired when I saw her.
  Sara How did Katty feel?



2 Prepare your own dialog to introduce your students to a sentence or subsentence pattern in the target language you teach.


This apple is very delicious
When did you buy these shoes?
That orange is very green

The theater was full of those costumes

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