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Criticism

Only grammar is not appropriate for true learning.

Writing and reading skills are not very important in this method.

It is not suitable for human. Parrots do it."Repeat after me". It is not a learning.

Teacher centered method. Students are inactive.

It is a mechanical without thinking- Repeat after me

Advantages

Purpose of communication

Cultural content

Good pronunciation

Good at speaking

The Role of The Teacher and The Student

Teachers

The teacher is like an orchestra leader

The teacher controls the classroom.

The teacher is very active.The teacher is the center.

Students

They learn in this way

Passive Learning

Passive Students

Background

Based on Leonard Bloomfield's technique of memorization and repetition.

Behaviorist Psychology has a significant impact on learning priciples of audio lingual method.

The Reinforcement is natural satisfaction of target language use.

The response is student's reaction about foreign language

The stimulus is the information about the topic

Known as army method due to the effect of military

The outbreak of World War II enabled the birth of Audio-lingual method.

Disadvantages

Little attention to reading and writing.

Students have little or no control on their own output.

It is time-consuming.

It is not contextualized.

Classes tend to drag.

Too rigid

Techniques

Restatement

Replacement

Inflection

Repetition

Drills

Dialog memorization

Principles

Repeat the language made as accurately and quickly as possible

Language learning is habit-formation.

Use drills to teach the lines of dialogue

Question-Answer Drill (students practise the target language with answering questions)

Transformation Drill (to change a certain kind of sentence pattern to another)

Multiple-slot-Substitution Drill(to fit cue phrase into the correct line)

Chain Drill(make students ask and answer question with eachother)

Dialog Memorization ( take the role,switch the role)

Backward-up drill (repeat part by part)