2. ORIGIN
•USA- 1950- technologies- Soviet Union-
satellite.
•USA- major power- foreign students.
•Rethink the Direct Method.
•Fries and his group in Michigan –materials
based on behaviorism (Skinner)- emerged
the audio lingual method.
•“ “ they require drill, drill, and more
drill, and only enough vocabulary to make
such drills possible & quot; (Hockett 1959).
•The need to learn a foreign language –
foreign correspondents.
•After the war- technology rush- foreign
students at US Universities.
3. WHAT IS ADIOLINGUALISM?
•Language learning is a
matter of habit
formation.
Audiolingualism is based
on behaviorism. Some
authors refer to it as an
approach and some refer
to it as just a method
4. BEHAVIORISM
•Is described as a
developmental theory that
measure observable behaviors
produced by a learner’s
response to stimuli.
8. FEAUTURES
•Explanation is not given until
the learners have practiced
the language in a variety of
contexts;
•Drills can enable learners to
form a correct analogy;
•Grammar approach is inductive
10. TYPES OF ACTIVITIES:
REPETITION : I know him- I know him .
INFLECTION : She bought the doll .- She
bought the dolls
REPLACEMENT : Paul drinks water - Paul
drinks wine .
COMPLETION: I have my book and you… i
have my book and you have yours.
