The Audio - Lingual Method

Contents Goals : The students are : Able to use the target language communicatively Forming new habits in the target language	Existing Classroom Practice As I once observed : A teacher introduced students a new dialog in target language. Then the teacher read it while the students listened carefully. The teacher asked the students to declaim the dialogs in groups and then each student. The teacher started to give drill to the students, it could be chain single slot and multiple slot substitution drills. They had to listen to the teacher and their friends said and remember it so they could follow the chain that could be a long sentence because each student substituted it with new vocabularies. The teacher also gave direction by some pictures. They had to able to respond as accurately and rapidly as possible. The teacher paid attention to the students if they had mistakes in pronunciation or grammar and corrected it together. In the end of the class, the teacher asked the students to make a kind dialogs like they did earlier.
Teaching-learning characteristics : Vocabulary and structure are presented through the dialogs Imitating and repetition Drills of the dialogs giving positively reinforce grammar is induced from the example given cultural information is contextualized in the dialogs reading and writing are based upon the dialogs
Teacher’s activities/roles : Directing and controlling the language behavior of the students Providing the students with a good model for imitation
Students’ activities : Imitating the teacher’s model Following the teacher’s direction Responding as accurately and rapidly as possible	As I was told : The teacher read a dialog several times. The students repeated after the teacher until they all understood and be able to say the dialog rapidly. Then the teacher introduced new vocabularies by giving its pictures. Then the students had to substituted the word in the dialog follow the teacher direction. Then the teacher gave drills to improve their ability in grammar. The students had to respond as accurately and rapidly as possible. They had to be able to speak naturally and make it as their habits.
Comments (plusses and minuses to English language teaching today) :
This method improve the students’ ability to communicate in target language as naturally as in their native language by drills and keeping it as their habits, the class will be very fun, but it have to be done frequently and need more energy in this class.