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The Audiolingual Method, A chain drill gets its name from the chain of…
The Audiolingual Method
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Characteristics:
New vocabulary and structural patterns are presented through dialogues through imitation and repetition
Drills (such as repetition, backward build-up, chain, substitution, transformation, and question-and-answer) are conducted based upon the patterns present in the dialogue.
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The target language is used in the classroom, not the students’ native language.
Audiolingualism (the term was coined by Professor Nelson Brooks in 1964) claimed to have transformed language teaching from an art into a science, which would enable learners to achieve mastery of a foreign language effectively and efficiently. The method was widely adopted for teaching foreign languages in North American colleges and universities
Audiolingualism reflects the view that speech can be approached through structure and that practice makes perfect.
Teacher roles:
• Introduce, sustain, and harmonize the learning of the four skills in this order: hearing, speaking, reading and writing.
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Role of the students:
Students are imitators of the teacher’s model or the tapes she supplies of model speakers. They follow the teacher’s directions and respond as accurately and as rapidly as possible.
The teacher is like an orchestra leader, directing and controlling the language behavior of her students. The professor is also responsible for providing her students with a good model for imitation.
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Techniques:
Dialogue Memorization
Dialogues or short conversations between two people are often used to begin a new lesson. Students memorize the dialogue through mimicry
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Repetition Drill
Students are asked to repeat the teacher’s model as accurately and as quickly as possible. This drill is often used to teach the lines of the dialogue.
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Transformation Drill
The teacher gives students a certain kind of sentence pattern, an affirmative sentence for example. Students are asked to transform this sentence into a negative sentence.
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Use of Minimal Pairs
The teacher works with pairs of words which differ in only one sound; for example, ‘ship/sheep.’
Complete the Dialogue
Selected words are erased from a dialogue students have learned. Students complete the dialogue by filling the blanks with the missing words
Grammar Game
Games like the Supermarket Alphabet Game described in this chapter are used in the Audio-Lingual Method. The games are designed to get students to practice a grammar point within a context
A chain drill gets its name from the chain of conversation that forms around the room as students, one by one, ask and answer questions of each other.
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