From what is inspired the Audiolingual Method?
From the Army Specialized Training Program
What is the objective of the Army Specialized Training Program?
Conversational proficiency
On what is based the Army Specialized Training Program?
On the intensity of contact with the target language.
What are the key factor in the birth of the American Audiolingual Method?
- Success of the Army Method
- High demand for multilingual military personnel due to WW 2
- Rise in the number of foreign students entering USA
- Increased attention given to foreign language teaching in the USA
- Need to keep up with the scientific advances in the world
Which methods have methodical similarities?
US structural linguistic and British Oral approach
How does the Us structural linguistic differs from the British Oral approach?
The US structural linguistic approach uses contrastive analysis.
What is Contrastive analysis?
- Systematic comparison of two languages (phonetic and grammatical patterns) in order to solve the problem of foreign language learning.
Compare the two language to see their differences and then guess where the learner will make mistakes.
Which approaches are resulting from the Army Specialized Training Program?
- Oral Approach
- Aural-Oral Approach
- Structural Approach
What is the sequence training in used in the Army Specialized Training Program?
- Aural Training
- Pronunciation Training
- Speaking
- Reading
- Writing
What is the theory of language of the Audiolingual Method?
Structural linguistics
How is seen the language in the Theory of language of the audiolingual method?
As a system of structurally related elements for the encoding of the meaning
What is the characteristics of the Theory of Language?
- Elements of language are being linerary produced in a ruled-governed (structured) way
- Language samples at any structural level (Phonetics, phonemics, morphological, sentential)
- Linguistics level: Systems within systems
How is seen language learning in the Theory of Language?
Mastering the elements and the rules
What are the primary and secondary medium?
Primary Medium: Oral Language
Secondary Medium: Written Form
What is the Theory of learning in the Audiolingual Method?
Behavioral Psychology
What is the behaviorist learning process?
- Stimulus to elicit behavior
- Response triggered by the stimulus
- Reinforcement to inhibit or encourage the future occurence of the response (based on association)
What is the behavior in Language Learning?
Stimulus: was is taught
Response: Learner’s response or action
Renforcement: Extrinsic approval of others or intrinsic elf-satisfaction
What are the main language learning principles by Rivers (1964)?
See PPT
What are the two types of objectives of the Design of the Audiolingual Method ?
- Short-range
2. Long-range
What are the short-range objectives of the Audiolingual Method?
- Training: Listening comprehension, pronunciation, recognition and reproduction of speech symbols
- Control: Structure of sounds, form and order
- Acquaintance(familiarity) of vocabulary items that bring content in the language
- Knowing the meaning of verbal symbols for a native speaker.
What are the long-range objective of the Audiolingual Method?
Using language as a native speaker: True bilingual
On what is the initial focus on the Audiolingual method? How does this change?
- Oral skill and proficiency
2. Later the focus is gradually on other skills linked with the knowledge of the learner
What is in the syllabus of the Audiolingual Method?
- Key items of phonology, morphology and syntax
2. Lexical syllabus of basic vocabulary items
What is the order of the language skills acquisition?
- Listening
- Speaking
- Reading
- Writing
