composed from several sources

1.  Subject: Techniques and Principles in
Language Teaching
 Instructor: Mr. Mohammad Tahir (Haand)
 Issue: The Audio Lingual Method (ALM)
 Presenters: Mohammad Omer, Muzamil
Agha, Jamil Ahmad and Noor Ahmad

3.  Founded around 1950’s and
1960’s.
 Developed by Skinner
 Learning language as a habit or
like a parrot.

5.  Drills: Repeat main line
1. Change main line with new vocabulary.
2. Create and answer yes/No questions
based on main line.
 No explicit grammar rule.

7.  Students need to use language with out
stopping to think.
 Dialogs are taught through repetition
and imitation.
 Errors are carefully avoided because
they lead to the formation of bad habits.

9.  Each language has its unique system.
 Errors should be avoided and
corrected right away.
 IN ALM students can increase their
pronunciation and speaking ability.
 Pronunciation is thought since the
beginning.
 Students error are avoided and teacher
draw their attention to their difficulties.

10.  Instructions are given in the target language.
 Students’ native language interferes as little
as possible.

11.  Students are guided to repeat as
accurately and as quick as they can.
 The teacher begins the chain drill and
then pass the turn to the students.

12.  Want the students to speak
communicatively.

13.  Teacher is like a/an:
1. Orchestra leader
2. Teachers are responsible for leading
students.
3. model/imitation
 Students should:
1. Imitators
2. Repeaters

14.  Students were not exposed to real or
realistic language.
 This method is too rigid ,classes tend to drag
 Students complain about the boredom
caused by endless pattern drills.

16.  Sudents turns into parrot because of
repetition who can reproduce many things
but never create anything new
 This method is time consuming

17. Thanks from your kind
attention