The Audio - Lingual Method
THE AUDIO - LINGUAL METHOD
1. INTRODUCTION
Basically, The Audio-Lingual Method is like The Direct Method; however, it is very different in that rather than emphasizing vocabulary acquisition through the situation. The Audio-Lingual Method more emphasizing to drill students in the use of grammatical pattern; therefore, it is also not same like The Direct Method which has a strong theoretical base in linguistic and psychology. When the teacher teaches students they have to know that the way to get the sentence pattern of the target language was through conditioning in helping learners to respond correctly to stimuli through shaping and reinforcement.
The Audio-Lingual Method is a method for teaching foreign language based on behaviorist theory, that emphasize the development of oral skill through habit formation, fostered by the use of repetition and reinforcement. In addition, there are some techniques and principles that we have to consider when we teach foreign language. To make us more understand about the method, let’s go we enter in a classroom now, where The Audio-Lingual Method is being used, then, we will try to sit on a beginning level English in Mali. Thirty-four students, between age of thirteen to fifteen years old and the class meet for one hour a day or five day a week.
2. EXPERIENCE
When we enter to the classroom, the first thing we notice is the students are attentively listening while the teacher is presenting a new dialog, a conversation between two people. The students know that the teacher want to memorize the dialog that is introducing and the teacher’s instructions are in English. Then the teacher says: “All right, class. I am going to repeat the dialog now, please listen carefully”.
The dialog is telling about two people are walking along the sidewalk in the town, one of them is named Sally and the other one is Bill. Their conversation like this:
Sally : Good morning, Bill.
Bill
1. INTRODUCTION
Basically, The Audio-Lingual Method is like The Direct Method; however, it is very different in that rather than emphasizing vocabulary acquisition through the situation. The Audio-Lingual Method more emphasizing to drill students in the use of grammatical pattern; therefore, it is also not same like The Direct Method which has a strong theoretical base in linguistic and psychology. When the teacher teaches students they have to know that the way to get the sentence pattern of the target language was through conditioning in helping learners to respond correctly to stimuli through shaping and reinforcement.
The Audio-Lingual Method is a method for teaching foreign language based on behaviorist theory, that emphasize the development of oral skill through habit formation, fostered by the use of repetition and reinforcement. In addition, there are some techniques and principles that we have to consider when we teach foreign language. To make us more understand about the method, let’s go we enter in a classroom now, where The Audio-Lingual Method is being used, then, we will try to sit on a beginning level English in Mali. Thirty-four students, between age of thirteen to fifteen years old and the class meet for one hour a day or five day a week.
2. EXPERIENCE
When we enter to the classroom, the first thing we notice is the students are attentively listening while the teacher is presenting a new dialog, a conversation between two people. The students know that the teacher want to memorize the dialog that is introducing and the teacher’s instructions are in English. Then the teacher says: “All right, class. I am going to repeat the dialog now, please listen carefully”.
The dialog is telling about two people are walking along the sidewalk in the town, one of them is named Sally and the other one is Bill. Their conversation like this:
Sally : Good morning, Bill.
Bill