Goals and principles of audio-lingual method

Khola Desk: 

Audio-lingual method is a way of teaching where students do what teachers ask them to do. Students repeat some selected dialogue s after teacher and memorize the rules of grammar and phrases through repeated drills. Through practising drills, learners form a habit of using the learned language in context.

The main goals of audio-lingual method are here:

i) to help learners form a habit of using some structures and patterns of a language in context

ii) to develop speaking and listening skills

iii) to communicate in the target language properly

iv) to make learners competent to be successful in communication

The main principles of this method are here:

i) learning is habit formation

ii) drilling and repetition of some selected patterns and structures of the target language

iii) focusing on forms and pronunciation, not on meaning

iv) giving positive and negative feedback based on correct and incorrect response

v) emphasising memorization of selected phrase and patterns

vi) using audio-visual materials

These are the goals and principles of audio-lingual method.