Audio-lingual method
What is audio lingual method
The audio-lingual
method, Army Method, or New Key,[1]
is a style of teaching used in teaching foreign
languages. It is based on behaviorist
theory, which professes that certain traits of living things, and in this case humans, could be trained
through a system of reinforcement correct use of a trait would receive positive
feedback while incorrect use of that trait would receive negative feedback.
This
approach to language learning was similar to another, earlier method called the
direct method. Like the direct method, the
audio-lingual method advised that students be taught a language directly,
without using the students' native language to explain new words or grammar in
the target language. However, unlike the direct method, the audio-lingual
method didn’t focus on teaching vocabulary.
Rather, the teacher drilled students in the use of grammar.
Applied to language instruction, and often within the context of the language lab,
this means that the instructor would present the correct model of a sentence
and the students would have to repeat it. The teacher would then continue by
presenting new words for the students to sample in the same structure. In
audio-legalism, there is no explicit grammar instruction everything is simply
memorized in form. The idea is for the students to practice the particular
construct until they can use it spontaneously. In this manner, the lessons are
built on static drills in which the students have little or no control on their
own output; the teacher is expecting a particular response and not providing
that will result in a student receiving negative feedback. This type of
activity, for the foundation of language learning, is in direct opposition with
communicative language teaching
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