Differences Between Audio Lingual and Communicative language teaching Methods
Differences Between Audio Lingual and Communicative language teaching Methods The audio lingual method, or the Army method, or also the New key, is the mode of language instruction based on behaviourist ideology, which professes that certain traits of living things could be trained through a system of reinforcement. The instructor would present the correct model of a sentence and the students would have to repeat it. The teacher would then continue by presenting new words for the students to sample in the same structure. There is no explicit grammar instruction everything is simply memorized in form. The idea is for the students to practice the particular construction untill they can use it spontaneously. In this manner, the lessons are built on static drills in which the students have little or no control on their own output. The communicative language teaching is am approach to the teaching of second and foreign languages that emphasizes communication or interaction as bo...