The Audio Lingual Method 

Grammar-translation method

 

"The army method"

 

 World War II

 

The native speaker model

 

Behavioural Psycology & conditioning 

Characteristics

  • Minimal grammatical explation
  • Memorisation of phrases 
  • Postive Vs Negative re-enforcment
  • Error prevention

Drilling 

  • Multi-Slot substitution drill
  • Transformation drill
  • Chain drill
  • Individual drill
  • Backward drill
  • Single-slot substitution drill

Audio-Lingual Method

By Darragh Mullooly

Audio-Lingual Method

A brief history of the audio lingual teaching methodology

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