Background
Audio lingual method is a method by
which many do the practices and exercises in language in the form of dialogue,
and the other where the students are expected to speak as the owner of the
language itself.
This method emphasizes teaching language
through hearing and imitating sounds and pronounce English. Language learning
process should start by listening to the sounds of the language in the form of
words and sentences and then ask student to memorize imitate, before reading
and writing are taught. The general objective of the audio-lingual method is to
enable the students to use the language as a communication tool.
In this method, there are advantages
and disadvantages. The advantages of audio-lingual method is executed in
sequence learning from listening, imitating, memorize, and practice. Also in
accordance with the process of learning the mother tongue. While the
disadvantage is not only speech-language skills but other skills that actually
are not less important than speaking skill.
Principles
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Use target language
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Modeling
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Students repeat the dialogue
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Errors corrected immediately
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Single/multiple-slot substitution drills
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Spoken/picture cues
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Transformation/Question & Answer drills
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Teacher poses the questions rapidly
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Limited vocabulary
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No grammar rules
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Contrastive analysis
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Limited written work
Objectives
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The accurate pronunciation and grammar
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The knowledge of vocabulary
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The responding ability
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The habits of learning language
Techniques
of the Audio-lingual method
§ Dialogue
Memorization
§ Backward
Build-up (Expansion) Drill
§ Repetition
Drill
§ Translation
Drill
§ Transformation
Drill
§ Single-slot
Substitution Drill
§ Multiple-slot
Substitution Drill
§ Question-and-answer
Drill
§ Complete
the Dialogue
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