Description of method Didactic class.

1. ESTHELA ROBALINO
FERNANDA JIMENEZ
SARA TAPIA
GABRIELA RUIZ

2. What is Method?
Method:
 It is an established, habitual, logical, prescribed practice or systematic process of
achieving certain goals with accuracy and efficiency, usually in an ordered sequence
of fixed steps.
 It is a careful or organized plan that controls the way something is done.

3. • Due to the World War II soldiers needed to become orally proficient
in the languages of their allies and enemies as quickly as possible.
• This teaching technique was initially called the Army Method, and
was the first to be based on linguistic theory and behavioral
psychology.
When did this method start?

4. • It is based on Skinner’s Behaviorism theory, which says that a human
being can be trained using a system of reinforcement.
• This approach to learning is similar to the Direct Method, in that the
lesson takes place entirely in the target language.
• These patterns are occasioned, repeated and tested until the responses
given by the student in the foreign language are automatic.
The context is important

11. Developments & Problems
 This extensive memorization, repetition and over-learning of patterns was the key to the
method’s success, as students could often see immediate results, but it was also its
weakness.
 The method’s insistence on repetition and memorization of standard phrases ignored the
role of context and knowledge in language learning.
 As the study of linguistics developed, it was discovered that language was not acquired
through a process of habit formation, and that errors were not necessarily bad.
 It was also claimed that the methodology did not deliver an improvement in
communicative ability that lasted over the long term.

12. WHY THE AUDIO-LINGUAL METHOD
FAILED?
 Philip Smith's study from 1965-1969, termed the Pennsylvania
Project, provided significant proof that audio-lingual methods
were less effective than a more traditional cognitive approach
involving the learner's first language.

13. Teaching Methods
Your choice of teaching method depends on what
fits you.
Teaching theories
primarily fall into two categories or “approaches”
teacher-centered and student-centered
general principles,
pedagogy and
management
strategies used for
classroom instruction
Teaching
method.

14. Bibliography:
• Oxford Dicctionary
• When – 1950 to 1970, some sporadic or selective use today
• Focus – Sentence and sound patterns
• Characteristics – Listening and speaking drills and pattern practice
only in English
• Supporters – B.F. Skinner
• Research in http://blog.tjtaylor.net/method-audio-lingual/