Audiolingual method

AUDIOLINGUAL METHODKEYLA CASTROMETHODOLOGY IUNIVERSIDAD DE LAS AMÉRICAS

The entry of the U.S into world war II had a significant effect on language teaching in america.Coleman report recomended in 1929 a reading based approach to foreign languages for use in American shcools and colleges.

The U.S Government needed people whith fluency in other languages to work as a translators or interpreters.The Goverment ask to Universities to create a program for military personnel.ASTP, army specialized training program. By Leronard Bloomdield at Yale.

Dr. Charles Fries (1939 ); Michigan University. Depeloped the first English Language Institute in the U.S.Teaching English as a 2nd foreign language.

Theory of Language Structuralism:- Rule-govered way- Structural Level (phonetic, phonemic,

morphological, syntax.- Behaviour

Theory of learning Process of mechanical habit formation. Skills are effective in a spoken way. Analogy provides better fundation than

analysis Drills to form better analogies. Linguistics and culture.

Design Objectives:- Short-range; training comprehention- Long-range; used by the native speaker Syllabus:- Contains the key items of phonology, morphology

and sintax.- In order to listening, speaking, reading and

writing. Types of learning and teaching activities:- Dialogue and drills are essential to classroom

practices.

Repetition Inflexion Replacement Restatmen Complention Transposition Expansion Contraction Transformation Intergration Rejoinder Restoration

Learner’s role

Teacher’s role

The role of instructional materialsBooks

Tape recorders AudiovisualLanguage laboratory

Procedure Oral instruction Target language use Model dialogue; repetition, correction,

pronunciation, memorization. Dialogue adapted Structure; used for pattern drills. Textbook; Follow-up activities; language laboratory

The decline of audiolingualism

Reached its period of most widespread use in 1960.

Attaqued as being unsound in language and learning terms.

Professionals had short expectations in results.

Unable to transfer skills Boring and unsatisfying Chomsky’s theory

Chomsky’s Theory “The fundamental properties of

language derieve from innate aspects of the mind and from how humans processes experiences through language”

Theory of the Beahaviour “Sentences are not learned by imitation

or repetition but generated from the learner’s underlying competence.”

Congitive code learning.

The alphabeth game Participate in share listening

experiences, ideas in large and small groups.