1. T Audio-L
he ingual
Method.

2. The Audio-Lingual Method
Oral-Based Approach.
Drills students in the use of grammatical sentence
patterns.
Strong base in Linguistics and Psychology.

3. The Audio-Lingual Method
Dialog memorization
Backward build-up drill.
Chain Drill
Substitution Drill.
Transformation Drill.
Question-and-answer Drill.
Use of minimal pairs.

4. What are the Goals of teachers?
To use language communicatively.
Students need to overlearn the Target language.

5. What is the role of the
Teacher/Students?
Orchestra leader
Provides a good model.
Imitators

6. What are some characteristics of the
Teaching/learning process?
Vocabulary/ structural patterns.
Imitation and repetition.
Drills.
Positive reinforcement.
Grammar induced.
Cultural information.

7. Nature of interaction.
Chain Drill
Roles in dialogues.
Most of the interaction Teacher/student.

8. How is language viewed? How is culture
viewed
Language/ unique system.
Different levels
Everyday speech is emphasized.

9. What areas of language are emphasized?
What language skills are emphasized?
Vocabulary
Grammar
Listening/speaking/reading and writing.

10. What is the role of the students’ native
language?
Interfere.
Target language.
Contrastive analysis

11. How does the teacher respond to student
errors?
Awareness of students difficulty.