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AUDIOLINGUAL METHO

Amanda Caroline KannenbergCaio Gustavo Pereira



• Developed during the World War II;

• It is based on Behaviorism (a theory from Skinner);

• Also known as Army Method;

• The U.S.A needed to teach the soldiers the languwere considered “exotic” in a fast and efficient way;



• Pattern drills: A kind of exercise used to memorize structures. The student repeats the same structure, but chan

lexical elements.• E.G.:

— This is a book.

— What is this?

— It’s a book.

— This is a notebook.

— What is this?

— It’s a notebook.

— This is a

— What is t

— It’s a pen



• The main objective of the Audiolingual Method was to students the communicative competence, mainly by the and variation of exercises;

• Altough this method focus on grammar, it doesn’t explaintopics;

• The pronunciation is very important in this method;

• The teacher just speaks the language that is being learned;

• The language laboratories have an important functiomethod.



Main characteristics of ALM

• The dialog is used to present the new material;

• Mime, memorization and learning are interdependent;

• Using the contrastive analysis, the structures are taught one by one;

• Repetitive exercises are used to teach structure models;

• The grammar is learned by the inductive analogy, so there is no grammar explana

• The vocabulary is explained in the context, and strictly limited;

• Visual resources, audio recordings and language laboratories are used a lot in this

• The pronunciation has to be similar to the native speakers;

• The usage of the native language is almost forbidden;

• Successful responses are always reinforced.



Some techniques used in ALM meth

• Dialog memorization;

• Expansion exercises;

• Repetition exercises;

• Simple Space Substitution Exercise;

• Multiple Space Substitution Exercise;

• Transformation Exercise;

• Q & A Exercise;

• Minimum Pairs;

• Complete the Dialog;

• Grammar Games;

• Vocabulary Acquisition;



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• FONSECA, João. New Spoken English. Basic Course . São PaCompanhia Editora Naciona, 1967;

• UPHOFF, Dörthe. “A história dos Métodos de Ensino de Ing

Brasil”. In: BOLOGNINI, Carmen Zink. A língua inglesa na e

Discurso e ensino . Campinas: Mercado de Letras, 2008, p. 9

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