Audiolingual

This method was called the “Army Method” because it was useful during the World War II for foreign people to communicate with the native habitants of a country. It was so effective, that eventuallygot implemented on many universities. Charles Fries, a linguist, was the man who defined the method; it’s not like the Direct Method, which is based on vocabulary, but this one focuses on drills,repetitions and grammar.
Language was viewed as a system of structurally related elements for the encoding of meaning, the elements being phonemes, morphemes, words, structures, and sentence types.The term structural referred to elements in a language were thought of as being linearly produced in a rule-governed way, language samples could be exhaustively described at any structural level ofdescription (phonetic, phonemic, morphological, etc), linguistic levels were thought of as systems within systems; phonetic systems led to morphemic systems, and these in turn led to the higher-levelsystems of phrases, clauses, and sentences. The behavior of this method is based on three elements in learning: a stimulus, response, and reinforcement, being this one very important because itincreases the likelihood that the behavior will occur again and eventually become a habit. Language skills are learned more effectively if the items to be learned in the target language are presented inspoken form before they are seen in written forms.
The objectives of this methods imply control of the structure of sound, form, and order in the new language; acquaintance with vocabulary itemsthat bring content into these structures, and meaning in terms of the significance these verbal symbols have for those who speak the language natively. Reading and writing skills may be taught, but theyare dependent on prior oral skills; language is primarily speech in audio-lingual theory, but speaking skills are themselves dependent on the ability to accurately perceive and produce the major...