The document introduces the audio-lingual method, an approach to language teaching based on behaviorist principles where students learn through repetition of speech patterns and are reinforced for correct responses without explicit grammar instruction. Key aspects included drill exercises in language labs and a focus on oral skills, drawing on linguists and psychologists. It fell from popularity due to criticisms that it oversimplified language learning and banned internal cognitive processes.

1. An Introduction to Audio-Lingual Method

2. Based on behaviorist --- certain traits of humans, could be trained through a system of reinforcement—correct use of a trait would receive positive feedback while incorrect use of that trait would receive negative feedback. Within the context of the language lab; No explicit grammar instruction, mainly pattern-drill exercises

3. Teacher: There's a cup on the table ... repeat Students: There's a cup on the table Teacher: Spoon Students: There's a spoon on the table Teacher: Book Students: There's a book on the table Teacher: On the chair Students: There's a book on the chair … Example

4. The product of three historical circumstances drew on the work of American linguists such as Leonard Bloomfield , behaviourist psychologists such as B.F. Skinner ; a strong focus on oral language; the outbreak of World War II (army method )

5. Fall from popularity The losing scientific credibility of behaviourist psychology; The arising of Chomsky and his attack on structural linguists. “ Audio-lingual methodology seems to banish all forms of language processing that help students sort out new language information in their own minds.” (Jeremy Harmer,2001)