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Background of Audio-Lingual Method

The Audio-Lingual method was developed during World War II as the Army method to teach English as a second language quickly for communicative competence. It was influenced by structuralism and behaviorist psychology, viewing language as a system learned through conditioning. It aimed to teach grammar and syntax through repetitive drills in language labs. While it was the first method to have a theory and make language learning accessible, it had disadvantages of lacking creativity, becoming tedious, and boring advanced students.

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Background of Audio-Lingual Method

The Audio-Lingual method was developed during World War II as the Army method to teach English as a second language quickly for communicative competence. It was influenced by structuralism and behaviorist psychology, viewing language as a system learned through conditioning. It aimed to teach grammar and syntax through repetitive drills in language labs. While it was the first method to have a theory and make language learning accessible, it had disadvantages of lacking creativity, becoming tedious, and boring advanced students.

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Audio-lingual Method

Background of Audio-lingual Method


The Audio-Lingual method of teaching English as a second language had its
origins during World War II when it became known as the Army method.  It was
developed as a reaction to the grammar-translation method of teaching foreign
languages.  Grammar-translation had been used to teach for thousands of years, but
the method was perceived as taking too long for learners to be able to speak in the
target language.  The Audio-Lingual method set out to achieve quick
communicative competence through innovative methods.  From about 1947-1967
the Audio-Lingual approach was the dominant foreign language teaching method
in the United States. 

Structuralism
A Language is a system of structural related elements, like phonological units,
grammatical units, and lexical items, for the transmission of meaning. So to learn
the target language is to master the elements of the target language system.

Behaviorist psychology:
Psychology states that people are conditioned to learn many forms of behavior,
including language through the process of training or conditioning.

Advantages:
1. it was the first method to have a theory.
2. It made language learning accessible to large groups of ordinary learners.
3. It was the first method to lay stress on the development of language syntax,
whereas the other methods were preoccupied with morphology and vocabulary.
4. Developing simple techniques and making use of language lab.

Disadvantages:
1. No creativity. Students repeat memorize what they do not understand.
2. The techniques used by this method become tedious and boring causing fatigue.
3. Make advanced students bored.
4. Many students in the dass.

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