APPROACHES AND

METHOD IN LANGUAGE
TEACHING
THE AUDIOLINGUAL
METHOD
MOHD RIDHAUDDIN BIN JAMIAN
MUHAMMAD FADZLI BIN HAMZAH
NUR LIYANA BT ZABRI
NUR SYAZANA BT RAMLI
SITI NOOR SAKINAH BT SH ISMAIL

ELE 3102 PISMP MT SEM 4

 BACKGROUND
 1929 – the Coleman Report recommended a reading based
approach to foreign language teaching for use in American
school and colleges.
 The American and British continuations of the Direct Method.
 US involved in WW II – give significant effect on language
teaching in America.
 Set up a special language training program - to supply the US
government with personnnel who were fluent in German,
French, Italian, Chinese and other language
 Language Training Program – Arme Specialized Training
Program (ASTP) was established
 1939 – university of Michigan develop the first
English Language Institute in US
 Charles Fries – applied the principles of structural
linguistics to language teaching
 Grammar or structure was the starting point
 The language was taught by systematic attention to
pronunciation and by intensive oral drilling of its basic
sentence.
 The approach developed by linguists at Michigan
and other universities became known variously as
the Oral Approach, The Aural-Oral Approach and
Structural Approach.
 Language was identified with speech and speech
was approached through structure.
 In the mid-1950s, the method came to be known as
Audiolingualism.
 The combination of structural lingustic theory,
contrastive analysis, aural-oral procedure, and
behaviorist psycology led to Audiolingual
Method.
Conclusion