ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF AUDIO LINGUAL METHOD
Based
on Fajardo (2011: 22-26)the there many advantages and disadvantages of using
Audio lingual Method there are:
1. Advantages
The Audio lingual Method, as any
other approach, has made some good contributions to the educational field. In spite of various refutations made against
this method, it also has certain advantages that worth to be analyzed and taken
into account for the purposes.
a.
The Audio lingual Method has been based
on a real psychological approach: Behaviorism
b.
The native language is not used to teach
a foreign language
c.
No translation is permitted to teach
vocabulary
d.
Students are encouraged to use the
foreign language and to speak
e.
Through teacher´s modeling, students
learn pronunciation, intonation and stress
f.
Teaching grammatical patterns
g. The teachers´ creativity can be used to give positive reinforcement
2. Disadvantages
Despite of
the fact that
the Audiolingual Method created a
revolution in the area of teaching foreign languages during 60`s, it did not
use translation to teach a target language. It has also received lots of
criticism. The method is based on mechanical learning and there is no space for
mistakes. As a result of that mechanical learning, it becomes senseless for
students.
a.
They complete the tasks because they
have to do that, not because they are
interested in learning.
b.
What the ALM instructor did not usually
provide was the opportunity for students to use the language in a meaningful or
communicative way, one involving the exchange of message.
c.
Nothing that happened in an ALM
classroom could be constructed as an exchange of information because output
(the actual production of language) was severely restricted.
d.
The ALM methodology does not let
students create a meaningful environment to learn the topic or structures that
are going to be presented to them.
e.
The exercises do not represent real facts or at least something
that they can be interested in, so they
do not pay the attention
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