The Audiolingual Method

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We move on to the third method which is the Audiolingual Method, a.k.a. Army Method. During WWII, the soldiers needed to speak their allies or enemies' languages asap, so that's how the Audiolingual Method was born. It emphasizes the teaching of listening and speaking rather than reading and writing.

Its main principles are:

• Separation of language skills into listening, speaking, reading and writing

• Uses dialogues as the principal means of introducing the language.

• Emphasizes some practice techniques such as: mimicry, memorization and pattern drills

Also, there are some techniques that can be applied with the Audiolingual Method:

◻ Repetition drill

◻ Substitution drill

◻Q & A drill

◻ Transformation drill

We did an exercise with each of these drills. For the repetition drill, the teacher asked us to read a dialogue and repeat it several times. For the substitution drill, with the same dialogue from earlier, we changed some words for their synonyms and read them aloud. In the Q&A drill, the teacher would ask us questions or we could ask them ourselves. And in the transformation drill, we were assigned sentences and we had to change them to either affirmative or negative.

If we make an analysis using the SWOT method we will get:

Strengths

✊ Students improve their speaking skills

✊ People learn by interacting with eachother

✊ Students improve their vocabulary and pronunciation

Weaknesses

👎 Lack of reading and writing skills

Opportunities

👌 By repeating, people get used to grammar structres or vocabulary

Threats

💀 Error correction is made just on speaking, not writing

This is how we end this topic. Bye! 👋