Audio Lingual Method Introduction

It drills students in the use of grammatical sentence patterns.

Audio lingual method introduction. Watch carefully what the teacher is doing and what he is asking the students to do. It is a method with which many of you may already be familiar. Most of those explanations will tell you that the alm fell into disuse through a highly visible critique and general dissatisfaction with the outcomes of the method. The audio lingual method army method or new key is a method used in teaching foreign languages it is based on behaviorist theory which postulates that certain traits of living things and in this case humans could be trained through a system of reinforcement the correct use of a trait would receive positive feedback while incorrect use of that trait would receive negative feedback.

This video demonstrates the audio lingual method with michael jerald. Audio lingual method alm introduction the audiolingual method was developed in the u s. Therefore the government commissioned american universities to develop foreign language program for. The audio lingual method is based on the theory that language learning is a question of habit formation.

The first method we will observe is the audio lingual method or alm. Based on behavioral psychology skinner. Government needed to be supplied with personnel who were fluent in german french italian chinese japanese malay and other languages and also who could work as interpreters code room assistants and translators at the time. The audio lingual teaching method is also known as army method or new key due to the involvement of the united states into world war ii.

A brief history of the audio lingual method. During the second world war. The audio lingual method was widely used in the 1950s and 1960s and the emphasis was not on the understanding of words but rather on the acquisition of structures a nd patterns in common. My colleague michael jerald will now demonstrate the alm.

The audio lingual method set out to achieve quick communicative competence through innovative methods. The audio lingual method was widely used in the 1950s and 1960s and the emphasis was not on the understanding of words but rather on the acquisition of structures and patterns in common everyday dialogue. Government found it a great necessity to set up a special language training program to supply the war with language personnel. These patterns are elicited repeated and tested until the responses given by the student in the foreign language are automatic.

Audio lingual method is an oral based approach. Conditioning helping learners to respond correctly to stimuli through shaping and reinforcement. From about 1947 1967 the audio lingual approach was the dominant foreign language teaching method in the united states.