AUDIO-LINGUAL METHOD

Repetition Students are asked to repeat the

teacher’s model as accurately and as quickly as possible

• Give students practice in finding and filling in the slots of a sentence.

Substitution

• This drill gives students practice with answering questions.

Question-and-answer

1.- What are the goals of the teachers?Teachers want the studens to learn to use it automatically without stopping to think.

2.- What are the role of the

teachers?Orchestra leader

3.- What are some charasteristics of the

teaching/learning process?•New vocabulary and structural patterns•The dialogs are learned throug imitation an repetition•Drills (Repetition, substitution, question-and-answer)•Grammar is induced from the examples given

4.- What is the nature of student-teacher

interaction? The interaction between students begins when students taken differents roles in the dialogues but the interaction with the teacher is direct and is initiated by the teacher.

5.- How are the feelings of the students dealt

with?There are no principles of the method

that relate to this area

6.-How is the language viewed?Every languaje is seen as having its own unique system.Culture consist in everyday behavior and lifestyle of the target languaje speakers

7.-What areas of language are emphatized?Listening-speakingReading- writing

8.-What is the role of the student´s native language?The student´s native languaje is

not used in the classroom

9.-How is evaluation accomplished-?The answer this question

is not obvious, because they not see the students taken the test. But if they would have seen the students the answer to this question would have been different.

10.-How does the teacher respond to

student errors?The teacher should be

alert to avoid errors when he/she plans

the class

Techniques •Dialog memorization•Backward build-up

•Transformation drill

•Repetition drill

•Question-and-answer drill

•Chain drill •Use of minimal pairs

•Single-slot substitution drill

•Complete the dialog

•Multiple slot substitution drill

•Grammar game