In the era, it is needed that using a right method
to teach language with a certain purpose is important because it will influence
the success of teaching itself. There are many aspects that must be considered
to use a certain method in teaching language, for example approach, design,
and procedure. Frankly there are lots of
methods with each purpose such as Grammar-Translation Method (GMT), Direct
Method, The Oral Approach and Situational Language Teaching, The Audiolingual
Method, Communicative Language Teaching, Total Physical Response, The Silent
Way, Community Language Learning, The Natural Approach, and Suggestopedia.
However, The Audiolingual Method is the most effective method that is used for
courses.
An interesting thing of The Audiolingual Method is the
history. The Audiolingual Method came up in U.S. because of World War Two. In
that time, U.S. Government needed people who were influent in some languages
such as German, French, Italian, Chinese, Japanese, Malay, and other languages
in order to work as interpreters, code-room assistants, and translators in
military personnel. The goal of this method is to become conversationally
proficient in a certain language.
The Audiolingual Method is very effective method that is
used for elementary school because students who are in elementary schools will
learn language easily with a guide from teacher. Students in elemntary school
will be hard to learn language if the teacher use the other methods sucah as Communicative
Language Teaching because in Communicative Language Teaching teacher asks the
students to discuss or present material in target language. The concept of The
Audiolingual Method can be dialogue memorization. The goal of this concept is
students can develop their oral skills by repeating a series of dialogues. The
dialogue is about daily conversation, for example how to order food, how to
greet people, and so on. Teacher will use short dialogue and students will able
to repeat the dialogues with a partner, transform questions into statements,
and complete a dialog using nouns, verbs, or adjectives.
In this method, The drills of The Audiolingual Method are
imitation and repetition (Behaviorism) so that in class teacher will give out
the dialogue and he will read the dialogue to the students. If necessary, he will explain words of dialogue that
students do not understand. The students will read the dialogue to themselves
and to the teacher. Then, they will pair up with another student to practice
the dialogue. After that, they will come to the front to practice the dialogue
in front of the class. The students can create their own dialogue by changing
the names or things of the old one and the teacher will ask the students a few
questions.
In brief, there are lots of methods in teaching language
with different purposes and The Audiolingal Method is one of them which come up
because of World War Two. This method is effective for students who are still
elementary school. The drills of The Audiolingual Method are imitation and
repetition so that it will make easier for students to learn target language.
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