The Audiolingual Method
The learner's activities must at first be confined to the audiolingual and gestural-visual bands of language behavior. Recognition and discrimination are followed by imitation, repetition and memorization.
The use of drills and pattern practice is a distinctive feature of the Audiolingual Method. Various kinds of drills are used includes the following:
- Repetition. The student repeats an utterance aloud as soon as he has heard it.
- Inflection. One word in an utterance appears in another form when repeated.
- Replacement. One word in an utterance is replaced by another.
- Restatement. The student rephrases an utterance and addresses it to someone else, according to instructions.
- Completion. The student hears an utterance that is complete except for one word, then repeats the utterance in completed form.
- Transposition. A .change in word order is necessary when a word is added.
- Expansion. When a word is added it takes a certain place in the sequence.
- Contraction. A single word stands for a phrase or clause.
- Transformation. A sentence is transformed by being made negative or interrogative or through changes in tense, mood, voice, aspect, or modality.
- Integration. Two separate utterances are integrated into one.
- Rejoinder. The student makes an appropriate rejoinder to a given utterance.
- Restoration. The student is given a sequence of words that have been culled from a sentence but still bear its basic meaning.