Audiolingual method.

Audiolingual method.

1. Combination of Structural linguistic theory, aural-oral procedures and Behavorist psychology.

2. Learning principles.

   • 2. Language skills are learned more effectively if the items to be learned in the target language are presented in spoken form.
   • 3. Language is acquired by analogy, not by analysis.
   • 1. Foreign language learning is basically a process of mechanical habit formation.

3. The use of drills and pattern practice is a distinctive feature of this method.

4. New methods have been developed independetly of current linguistic and second language adquisition theory.