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The Audio-Lingual Method (ALM) is an oral-based language teaching approach that focuses on grammar, sentence patterns, and structural syllabus. It is influenced by behaviorism and structural linguistics. In ALM, the teacher models dialogs containing new vocabulary and grammar patterns, which students learn through imitation, repetition, and question-answer drills. Accuracy and correct pronunciation are emphasized over fluency. Cultural information is presented through contextualized dialogs. Interaction is primarily between the teacher and students, with the goal of forming new language habits and overcoming native language interference.

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The Audio-Lingual Method (ALM) is an oral-based language teaching approach that focuses on grammar, sentence patterns, and structural syllabus. It is influenced by behaviorism and structural linguistics. In ALM, the teacher models dialogs containing new vocabulary and grammar patterns, which students learn through imitation, repetition, and question-answer drills. Accuracy and correct pronunciation are emphasized over fluency. Cultural information is presented through contextualized dialogs. Interaction is primarily between the teacher and students, with the goal of forming new language habits and overcoming native language interference.

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1/ The language used in ALM is called Lab language .

2/ ALM is an oral-based approach, focusing on grammar sentence patterns


3/ ALM has a strong theoretical base in linguistics (structural) and _psychology
4/ ALM uses a structural syllabus, which proceeds from simple grammatical structure
to more complex grammatical structure.
5/ ALM is affected by behaviorism and structuralism.
6/ Teachers want their students to be able to use the target language communicatively.
In order to do this, students need to overlearn the target language, to learn to use it
automatically, without stopping to think. Students achieve this by forming new habits
in the target language and overcoming the old habits of their native language.
7/ In ALM, the teacher acts as an orchestra leader while students are imitators of the
teacher’s model.
8/ New vocabulary and structural patterns are presented through dialogs.
9/ Dialogs are learned through imitation and repetition.
10/ Drills are conducted based upon the paterns present in the dialog.
11/ In ALM, grammar is taught inductively.
12/ Cultural information is contextualized in the dialogs.
13/ Most of the interaction is between teacher and students and is initiated by the
teacher.
14/ The view of language in ALM has been influenced by descriptive linguists.
15/ Everyday speech is emphasized in ALM.
16/ Culture consists of the everyday behavior and lifestyle of the L2 speakers.
17/ Reading and writing based upon oral work.
18/ The complexity of speech is graded.
19/ Vocabulary is kept to the minimum whole students are mastering sound system and
grammatical patterns.
20/ The natural order of skills are listening, speaking , reading and writing.
21/ The oral/aural skills receive most of the attention.
22/ Pronunciation is taught from the beginning, using minimal pairs and lab language.
23/ Only L2 is used in classroom because L1 interferer Students’ mastery of L2
23/ Discrete point tests are used in ALM.
24/ Student errors are to be avoided at all costs. Students are restricted to what they are
taught to say.
25/ Accuracy is more emphasized than fluency.
26/ Games used in ALM are called Grammar games.
27/ Backward build-up drill is also called Expansion drill.
28/ Using contrastive analysis, teacher selects a pair of words that sound identical
except for a single sound that typically poses difficulty for the
learners.
29/ In the ALM classroom
- Correct imitation of the teacher is focus.
- Correct output-production is expected
- Correct pronunciation is given attention to.
- Correct grammar is stressed.
- No explicit grammatical instruction is given.
30/ ALM develops the mastery of foreign language in all 4 skills, beginning with
listening as the basis for the teaching of reading and writing.
31/ ALM’s materials are more systematically and scientifically designed.
32/ Reading and Writing are not neglected. The students are trained to build skills in
these areas step by step.
33/ There is active participation by all students most of the time.
34/ Students learn in a mechanical way and may become well-trained parrots.
35/ ALM makes considerable demands on the teacher.
36/ The method is appropriate for young children who love to mimic.
37/ Actions, pictures , or relia are used to give meaning in ALM class.
38/ Language forms do not occur by themselves but occur most naturally within a
context.
39/ In Dialog memorization techniques, students memorize the dialog through mimicry.
40/ When students stumble over one of the lines of the dialog, the teacher uses backward
build up drill with this line.
41/ In Expansion drill, the teacher breaks down the line into several parts, then the
students rêpat a part of the sentence, usually the last phrase of the line.
42/ In repetition drill, students are asked to repeat the teacher’s model as accurately and
as quickly as possible.
43/ A chain drill gets its name from the chain of the conversation that forms around the
room as students, one-by-one, ask and answer questions of each other.
44/ In transformation drill, teacher asks students to change a statement into a question,
an active sentence into a passive one and direct speech into indirect one.
45/ In Question-and-answer drill, students should answer the questions of teachers very
quickly.
46/ In Grammar games, the games are designed to get students to practice a grammar
point within a context. Notice there is a lot of repetition in this game.

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