The Audiolingual

Method

Reading-based Approach(1929)

Army Specialized Training Program

(ASTP – 1949)Direct Method

Oral Approach,Aural-Oral Approach

orStructural Approach

Linguistic principles of the

Aural-Oral Approach

Audiolingualism

Insights taken from behaviorist

psychology

THE AUDIOLINGUAL METHOD:

•APPROACH•DESIGN

•PROCEDURE

APPROACH• THEORY OF LANGUAGE THEORY OF LEARNING

STRUCTURAL LINGUISTICS

*TRADITIONAL GRAMMAR*LANGUAGE*TERM ‘STRUCTURAL’

*FOLLOWED BY BEHAVIOURIST THEORY OF LEARNING.

*RALATION WITH THE LANGUAGE TEACHING

*LEARNING PRINCIPLES

DESIGN• OBJECTIVES SHORT RANGE

LONG RANGE

• THE SYLLABUS

• TYPES OF LEARNING AND TEACHING ACTIVITIES

• LEARNER ROLE

• TEACHER ROLE

PROCEDURE• ORAL INSTRUCTION

• TARGET LANGUAGE IN USE

• MODEL DIALOGUE, REPETITION, CORRECTION, PRONUNCIATION, MEMORIZATION

• DIALOGUE ADAPTED

• STRUCTURE

• TEXT BOOK

The decline of Audiolingualism• ATTACKED AS BEING UNSOUND

• SHORT RESULTS

• UNABLE TO TRANSFER SKILLS

• BORING AND UNSATIFYING

• CHOMSKY’S THEORY