My notes: Audio-lingual method: Relies on drilling with stimulus-response-reinforcement. There is an oral model given (via voice or taped) and pattern drills are carried out. The process is listen-speak-read-write. The focus is on error prevention and habit formation. The disadvantages of the mechanical drilling are that it is a repetitive, dull process. This is a behaviourist approach - focusing on the external aspects of learning a language.
I think of it as like football coaching - learning ‘drills’ - ie. idea being that practice will make perfect - using the power of the brain to absorb a skill by repeating it
I see you are teaching approaches to ELT by actually giving a class acording to the approach you are teaching. That's a pretty good technique to teach the approaches. I'm an ELT student myself and trying to learn ELT approaches for a lesson in university. You helped me a lot, thank you for sharing this class with us all!
Very useful to understand how to use the audio lingual method. I am not interested about how your lesson is going on. I don't understand other people's negative comments.
then I suggest that you divide your dialogue. this method is great for the elementary level. for the higher levels the communicative approach should be adopted.
+Rodolfo Garces Yes, but alway have in mind that this method is more suitable for teaching children not for adults, otherwise they will think u are a kind of stupid teacher :)
yeah it suits more intermediate students. It could be effective to teach speaking and language bits. It is the right method to gain accuracy and fluency in English. As you said it is a boring one
Structural and behavioral view Because it depends on teaching the structure of a language (vocabulary items and grammatical rules) and drilling then practicing. Students listen than respond quickly and accurately without thinking.
Should be teaching reduced forms...Instead of "I am going to the post office...I'm goin ta the post office," if she wants fluent speakers of American English.
close-minded comment. It's suitable for certain situations such as the exact situation she taught it so effectively in. It's a teaching methodology/skill for the repertoire
Actually you are wrong. Audio lingual has been used for obtaining a very high level for a long time. Research Operant Conditioning as this is part of the AL approach.
It wasn't a real learning situation, though. They were just demonstrating learning methods so the girl near the teacher were just playing along as a "student"
