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The Audioligual Method

​​​​​​​APPROACH

​​​​​​​DESIGN

​​​​​​​​​​​​​​PROCEDURE

Structural linguistics

Developed from

which viewed

The language as a system of structurally related elements for the encoding of meaning, the elements being phonemes, morphemes, words, structures, and sentence types.

Language theory

Learning theory

which lead to believe

the primary medium of language is oral: Speech is language.

Type of

Behaviorist psychology

Establishes

Language mastery is represented as acquiring a set of appropriate language stimulus-response chains.

In which

the appropriate sequence for learning and teaching is beginning with the phonological level and finishing with the sentence level.

Objectives

Syllabus

Learner roles

Teacher roles

roles of Institutional materials

Short range: training in listening comprehension, accurate pronunciation, recognition of speech symbols as graphic signs on the printed page, and ability to reproduce these symbols in writing

Long rage: must have learned the language as the native speaker uses it.

Linguistic syllabus: contains key items of phonology, morphology, and sintax.

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.

Lexical syllabus: contains a basis of vocabulary, (used in advanced levels)

in relation to

Grammar: is taught inductively

Figure 1.1