Audiolingual Method Flashcards
What is the theory of language underlying the Audiolingual Method?
Its theory derives from a view that came to be known as “Structural Linguistics”. SL had developed in part as a reaction to traditional grammar. Grammar was considered a branch of logic.
What is the theory of learning underlying the Audiolingual Method?
Behaviorism, just like structural linguistics, is another antimentalist, empirically based approach to the study of human behavior. To the behaviorist, the human being is an organism capable of a wide repertoire of behaviors. The occurence of these behaviors is dependent on three crucial elements in learning: a stimulus, which serves to cause behavior; a response; and reinforcement, which serves to mark response as being appropriate and encourages the repetition of the response in the future.
What are the objectives of the Audiolingual Method?
There are short-range and long-range objectives of an audiolingual program. Short-range objectives include training in listening comprehension, accurate pronunciation and recognition of speech symbols as graphic signs on the printed page and the ability to reproduce these symbols in writing. Long-range objectives must be language as the native speaker uses it. There must be some knowledge of a second language as it is possessed by a true bilingualist.
What’s the syllabus in an Audiolingual approach?
The starting point is a linguistic syllabus, which contains the kew items of phonology, morphology, and syntax of the language arranged according to their order of presentation. These may have been derived in part from a contrastive analysis of the differences between a native language and the target language, since these differences are thought to be the cause of the major difficulties the learner will encounter.
What are the types of learning and teaching activities in the Audiolingual Method?
Dialogues and drills form the basis of audiolingual classroom practices. Dialogues provide the means of contextualizing key structures and illustrate situations in which structures might be used as well as some cultural aspects of the target language. Dialogues are used for repetition and memorization. Correct pronunciation, rhythm, stress, and intonation are emphasized. After a dialogue has been presented and memorized, specific grammatical patterns in the dialoogue are selected and become the focus of various kinds of drill and pattern-practice exercises.
What are the learner roles in the Audiolingual Method?
Learners play a reactive role by responding to stimuli and thus have little control over the content, pace, or style fo learning. They are not encouraged to initiate interaction, because this may lead to mistakes.
What are the teacher roles in the Audiolingual Method?
The teacher’s role is central and active; it is a teacher-dominated method. The teacher models the target language, controls the direction and pace of learning,and monitors and corrects the learner’s performance. The teacher must keep the learners attentive by varying drills and tasks and choosing relevant situation to practice structures.
What is the role of instructional materials in the Audiolingual Method?
They assist the teacher to develop language mastery in the learner. They are primarily teacher oriented. A student textbook is often not used in the elementary phases of a course where students are primarily listening, repeating, and responding. At this stage of learning, exposure to the printed word may not be considered desirable, because it diverts attention from the aural input. The teacher, however, will have expodure to a teacher’s book that contains the structured sequence of lessons to be followed and the dialogus, drills, and other practice activities.
