7.

5 Principles of the ALM

The principles of ALM are as following:
 Language forms occur naturally in some socio-cultural
context.
 Students must learn syntax (sentence structure) and
parts of speech to adjust the parts of speech in its slot.
 Correct habits are developed through positive
reinforcement.
 Each language has specific number of structural patterns
and practice of these helps to form habits among
students. Subsequently it enables the students to use
them.
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 The students learning should make them use language
automatically without stopping to think on it.
 The teacher’s role should be that of an orchestra
organizer, conducting, guiding, and controlling the
students’ behavior.
 Being the language different, they should be kept separate
so the mother tongue should not interfere with the
learning of the target language and it is possible only to
restrict the usage of the mother tongue in the language
classroom.
 The language teacher’s role should be like that of a native
speaker model to be copied by the students for learning it
in the best way.
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 Errors should be avoided in order to prevent the bad

habit formation. That is why drills are used in ALM
for the accurate habit formations.
 Natural order of learning a language must be followed
in which speech has greater importance than the other
skills.
 Language and culture are part and parcel of each
other. So cultural contexts should be provided in
language teaching.