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The Audioligual Method

​​​​​​​APPROACH

​​​​​​​DESIGN

​​​​​​​​​​​​​​PROCEDURE

Language as a system for the expression of meaning.

view of

which implies that

The primary function of language is for interaction and communication. As well as its primary units are not merely its grammatical and structural features, but categories of functional and communicative meaning as exemplified in discourse.

Language theory

Learning theory

About functions

Halliday established the instructional, regulatory, interactional and personal functions.

It adresses

the conditions needed to promote second language learning, rather than the processes of language acquisition.

underlying elements

The communication, task and meaningfulness principles.

Includes also

A distinction between learning and acquisition: The learned system can serve only as a monitor of the output of the acquired system.

Objectives

Syllabus

Learner roles

Teacher roles

roles of Institutional materials

They are divided into levels: 1. an integrati ve and content. 2. a linguistic and instrumental. 3. an affective level of interpersonal relationsh ips and conduct. 4. a level of individual learni ng needs. 5. a general educational level o f extra-linguistic goals

Learners are viewed as organisms that can be directed by skilled training techniques to produce correct responses.

Learning and teaching activities

Constant dialogues and drills, and especific process as: repetition, inflection, replacement, restatement, completation, transposition, expansion, contraction, transformation, integration, rejoinder, and restoration.

The teacher models the target language, controls the direction and pace of learning, and monitors and corrects the learners' performance..

They are primarily teacher-oriented. It uses tape recorders and audiovisual equipment often have central roles in an audiolingual course

Aims to

The process of teaching involves extensive oral instruction, which focuses on immediate accurate speech; there is little provision for grammatical explanation or talking about the language.

in relation to

Grammar: is taught inductively

Figure 1.1

Skill-learning model: encourages an emphasis on practice as a way of developing communicative skils.