Audiolingual

Method
Shiella Mae V. Amores BSED-1st year
 What is Audio-Lingual Method?

Grammar is induced from There are no principles

the examples given. Cultural of the method that
information is presented by PRINCIPL relate to this area
teacher.
ES

There is student-to- Teachers want their

student interaction in The dialogs are learned through students to be able to use
chain drills but this imitation and repetition. Drills are the target language
interaction is teacher- conducted based upon the patterns communicatively.
directed. present in the dialog.
 Theory of Learning: BEHAVIORISM

The theory of learning underlying the Audio-lingual Method is Behaviorism, including some of the
following principles:

1.Human beings learn language in the same way as other habits are learned through the
process of training or conditioning.
2.The learning of a foreign language should be the same as the acquisition of the native
language.
3.Language learning is the outcome of stimulus (what is taught) – response (learner’s reaction
to what is being taught) – reinforcement (approval or disapproval of the teacher) chain.
4.Positive reinforcement helps the students to develop correct habits.
 Theory of Language: STRUCTURALISM

The theory of language underlying the Audio-lingual Method is Structuralism. According to the
structural view, language has the following characteristics:

Speech is more basic to language than the written form.

Language structure and form are more significant than meaning.
Elements in a language are produced in a rule-governed (structural) way.
Language samples could be exhaustively described at any structural level of description.
Language is structural like a pyramid, that is, the linguistic level is a system within a system.
1. Languages are different since every language has its own unique system.
Distinctive Definition of Language

Language is primarily an
oral phenomenon.
Audiolingualism views language as a set of structures,
including phonemes, morphemes, and syntax, the
patterns of which can be deduced by analyzing the
language used by native speakers.
 Distinctive Definition of Teaching

Audiolingual Method emphasizes the

teaching of listening and speaking before It lays emphasis on mimicry as a main
reading and writing. It uses dialogues as technique in teaching. This is done
the main form of language presentation through memorization of the dialogues
and drills as the main training and imitative repetition.
techniques.
Distinctive Definition of Learning

In audio-lingualism, there is no explicit grammar

instruction: everything is simply memorized in
form.

Students learn through imitating. They follow what

is directed by their teacher and respond as rapidly
as possible (Freeman, 2000)
 Question/Answer to Language Acquisition

Since Audiolingual Method is based The Audiolingual Method advised

on behaviorist theory, it then that students should be taught a
postulates that certain traits of living language directly, without using the
things, and in this case humans, students’ native language to explain
could be trained through a system of new words or grammar in target
reinforcement. language.

In the Audiolingual Method,

instructor would present the
correct model of a sentence and
the students would have to repeat
it for them to learn the language.
 The Teaching of Speaking

In the Audiolingual Method, though the skills of reading and writing are not neglected, the focus
throughout remains on listening and speaking. The teaching of speaking is not that impossible since
dialogue is the main feature in the Audiolingual syllabus.
In teaching students how to speak, the instructor or the teacher may use the language laboratory as a
teaching aid. It is where the instructor would present the correct model of a sentence and the students
would have to repeat it. Then the teacher would continue by presenting new words for the students to
sample in the same structure. Students would also be taught a language directly, without using the
students’ native language to explain new words or grammar in target language. The idea is for the
students to practice the particular construct until they can use it spontaneously.
 The Teaching of Speaking

In Audiolingual Method, the teacher drilled students in the use of grammar instead of vocabulary. Charles Carpenter
Fries, the director of English language institute at the University of Michigan, believed that learning structure or
grammar was the starting point for the student. The students were given only “enough vocabulary to make such
drills possible.” (Richards, J.C. Et-al. 1986). In teaching the students, drills and pattern practice are typical
(Richards, J.C. Et al., 1986), repetition, which means that the student repeats an utterance as soon as he hears it.
Inflection, which is one word in a sentence appears in another form when repeated. Replacement, one word is
replaced by another, and the Restatement, which means that the student rephrases an utterance.
In general, lessons in the classroom using the Audiolingual Method in teaching of speaking focus on the correct
imitation of the teacher by the students. Students are expected to produce the correct output but attention is also
paid to correct pronunciation. And inside the classroom, the target language is the only language to be used.
Characteristic that interest me

In the Audiolingual Method, what I like the most is that how this approach
focus on listening and speaking before reading and writing. It caught my
interest, knowing that through this strategy, students learn and develop
listening and speaking skills quite efficiently, and they learn correct
pronunciation and structure easily.
The other idea that also caught my interest is how this Audiolingualism
methodology is expected to allow students to communicate in foreign languages ​
through memorizing the structure and sound of words. It’s interesting to know
how students learn the language through repeating the model of a sentence
presented by their instructor and how they manage to use eleven techniques in
teaching .
 Reflection (What Teaching means to you)

For me, teaching is not only imparting information to your learners, but it is a combination of imparting
essential knowledge to the brain while transforming your learners’ character into the best they could possibly be.
As Dorothea Dix said, “ The duties of a teacher are neither few nor small, but they elevate the mind and give
energy to the character”. I believe that teaching is not limited to imparting information to the mind alone, but it
is also about feeding the heart and shaping the characters of your learners. Teaching is not just simply about
teaching your students how to make a step, but it also about guiding them in their every step and directing them
to a best and decent destination.
To teach is a privilege and at the same time, a heavy responsibility. So as a future educator, I’d like to dedicate
myself in teaching young people not just about what they should learn to survive and be competent and globally
competitive, but I’d like to give them something they can carry with them while living in this world waiting for
the coming of God. For me, incorporating the words of God in teaching to shape characters that would represent
God’s character to the rest of the world, is the face of a true education and the heart of a supreme teaching.
Reflection ( The intercession of the Holy
Spirit )

In the Audiolingual Method of language acquisition it’s evident that one

can’t comprehend and understand new information and knowledge without
the intercession of the Holy Spirit who provides us understanding, guidance
and help. In everything we do and acquire here on earth, we know that we
should align it back to the service of God. Through the Holy Spirit we are
guided into all truth (John 16:13) and we are equip to serve others
(Ephesians 4:11-12). Everything we learn and everything we acquire,
whether it’s a new skill or talent we should utilize it for the service of others
and for the work of God, for this way we are not just exalting God but we
are also doing our part as His disciplines.
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Jimenez (2015, May 12) The Audiolingual Method and The Silent Way.
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