ALM Flashcards

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What is the ALM?

A

In the ALM, language learning meant forming good habits. It was based on getting learners to repeat behaviors until they became fully learned habits.

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What kind of activities were found in an audio-lingual class?

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Drills, Dialogue, mimicry.

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What did adherents of ALM believe about how 2nd languages are learned?

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They believed language was learned by forming habits. Language = grammar + pronunciation + vocabulary.

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What kind of syllabus was an ALM curriculum based on?

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ALM is based on a structural syllabi. Before CLT, most language teaching syllabi were organized through a sequence of progressively more complex grammar features (i.e., structures-> the structural syllabus

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