The Audio-Lingual Method focuses on oral drills and memorization of grammatical patterns. It uses repetitive drills and imitation of the teacher to reinforce vocabulary and structures. Students are expected to overlearn the target language through drills, minimal pairs, and question-and-answer exchanges, with an emphasis on listening and speaking skills.

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2. The Audio-Lingual Method
Oral-Based Approach.
Drills students in the use of grammatical sentence
patterns.
Strong base in Linguistics and Psychology.

3. The Audio-Lingual Method
Dialog memorization
Backward build-up drill.
Chain Drill
Substitution Drill.
Transformation Drill.
Question-and-answer Drill.
Use of minimal pairs.

4. What are the Goals of teachers?
To use language communicatively.
Students need to overlearn the Target language.

5. What is the role of the
Teacher/Students?
Orchestra leader
Provides a good model.
Imitators

6. What are some characteristics of the
Teaching/learning process?
Vocabulary/ structural patterns.
Imitation and repetition.
Drills.
Positive reinforcement.
Grammar induced.
Cultural information.

7. Nature of interaction.
Chain Drill
Roles in dialogues.
Most of the interaction Teacher/student.

8. How is language viewed? How is culture
viewed
Language/ unique system.
Different levels
Everyday speech is emphasized.

9. What areas of language are emphasized?
What language skills are emphasized?
Vocabulary
Grammar
Listening/speaking/reading and writing.

10. What is the role of the students’ native
language?
Interfere.
Target language.
Contrastive analysis

11. How does the teacher respond to student
errors?
Awareness of students difficulty.