A teaching method

1. AUDIOLINGUAL METHOD
KEYLA CASTRO
METHODOLOGY I
UNIVERSIDAD DE LAS
AMÉRICAS

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. Theory of Language
 Structuralism:
- Rule-govered way
- Structural Level
(phonetic, phonemic, morphological, syntax.
- Behaviour

5. 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.

6. 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.

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

8. Learner’s role

9. Teacher’s role

10. The role of instructional
materials Books
Tape recorders
Audiovisual
Language laboratory

11. Procedure
 Oral instruction
 Target language use
 Model dialogue;
repetition, correction, pronunciation, memoriza
tion.
 Dialogue adapted
 Structure; used for pattern drills.
 Textbook;
 Follow-up activities; language laboratory

12. 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

13. 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.

14. The alphabeth game
 Participate in share listening
experiences, ideas in large and small groups.