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Lingual Method
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Definition
The Audiolingual Method is a method for foreign
language teaching which emphasized
the teaching of listening and speaking before
reading and writing. This method is combination
between behavioral psychology and linguistic. It’s
also called “Army Method” because this
method is appeared since the World War II for
the American armies who had to learn language
quickly and intensively. In the Audiolingual
Method, the students first hear a
2. The student are able to give correct response rather than by making mistake.
3. Language skills are learned more effectively if the items to be learned in the target language
are presented in spoken form before they are seen in written form.
4. Aural-oral training is needed to provide the foundation for the development of other language
skills.
5. Drills can enable learners to form correct analogies. Hence the approach to the teaching of
6. The meaning that the words of a language have for the native speaker can be learned only in
2. Learning is the result of experience and is evident in changes in behaviour. The aim is for
and generalization) rather than analysis (deductive learning of rule, as the Grammar
6. Errors are the result of first language interference and are to be avoided at all costs in the
course of instruction. Teachers must specify what language the student will use and control
7. Focuses on all its practices and procedures shifted from reading, translating and deductive
explanation of grammar rules to the listening, speaking and the inductive presentation of
1. Repetition drill
The 2. Single- slot substitution drill
3. Question-and-answer drill
Techniques of 4. Expansion drill
5. multiple- slot substitution drill
2. With its simpler techniques, this method widened the scope of the language learner.
3. Syntactic progression of language patterns receives more importance than vocabulary and
morphology.
method ’s language and learning principles. Secondly, it was found that the ALM didn’t act as
the panacea for teachers who started to complain that not all their needs were met by this method.
In addition, students expressed their dissatisfaction with the mechanical drills in classes and
called them tedious and tiresome. They complained that what they acquired was more like
parroting and less like real communication the required outside of their classrooms.
For these reasons, since 1970 audio- lingual as a method came to its end, even though
importance of listening and speaking skills, and stresses the need for students to learn language
through repetition and practice.
While the audio-lingual method was popular for a time, it eventually fell out of favor due
to criticisms that it was too focused on rote memorization and did not sufficiently develop
continue to be used in language teaching today, particularly in the area of pronunciation and
intonation.
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