Question: What is the audio-lingual method of teaching?
Answer: A method of language teaching that helps students develop communicative competence through dialogues and drills.
Rosetta Stone https://www.rosettastone.com/languages/learn-english/ and Duolingo both utilize this teaching method. https://www.duolingo.com/
Repetition of the dialogues and drills enables students to respond quickly and accurately in spoken language.
TJ Taylor does a great job of summarizing the audio-lingual method of teaching English here: https://blog.tjtaylor.net/method-audio-lingual/
The focus is on “the acquisition of structures and patterns in common everyday dialogue.
These patterns are elicited, repeated and tested until the responses given by the student in the foreign language are automatic.
Some characteristics of this method are:
- Drills are used to teach structural patterns
- Set phrases are memorised with a focus on intonation
- Grammatical explanations are kept to a minimum
- Vocabulary is taught in context
- Audio-visual aids are used
- Focus is on pronunciation
- Correct responses are positively reinforced immediately”
Diane Larsen-Freeman and Michael Jerald show the teaching method on Youtube here:
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