TEACHING METHODS

METHOD: The audio lingual method

Creator Charles Fries

Approach Oral-based to drill students in the

use of grammatical sentence
patterns

Teacher’s role ● Direct and control the

language behavior of the
students

Student’s Role ● Follow the teacher’s direction

and respond accurately and
quickly as possible

Materials ● Actions

● Pictures

● Objects

Main Characteristics, evaluation, the ● No native language in

role of error, etc classroom

● Emphasizes spoken language

● To obtain the “language

habit” you must practice it

● You learn through imitation

and repetition

● The teacher punish those who

make errors
 ● New vocabulary and
structural patterns are
presented

● The teacher can use different

kinds of techniques (Drills)

Procedure Backward build-up drill: The teacher

breaks down the line into parts then
students repeat a part of the
sentence

Repetition drill: Student’s have to

repeat what the teacher says as
accurate and as quickly as possible

Chain drill: Students form one-by-

one conversation, ask and answer
questions of each other

Single-slot substitution drill: Teacher

says the cue, the students repeat
the line the teacher gave them,
substituting the cue into the line in
its proper place

Multiple-slot substitution drill:

Follows the same rules as the single-
slot but here the students must
recognize what part of speech each
cue is

Transformation drill: The students

practice to change the sentence
pattern
Question and answer drill: Here the
students must answer the teacher
questions quickly