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The audio-lingual method, like the Direct Method we have just examined, is also an oral-based approach.the Audio-lingual method drills students in the use of grammatical sentence patterns.it also, unlike the Direct Method, has a strong theoretical base in linguistics and psychology. The most important in Audio-Lingual Method Language learning based on habit formation. the more often something is repeated. the stronger the habit and the greater the learning. New vocabulary and structural patterns are presented through dialogs. The dialogs are learned through imitation and repetition.The purpose of this method is to form habit formation and speaking the target language automatically. Although people did learn languages through the Audio-lingual method, one problem with it was students inability to readily transfer the habits they had mastered in the classroom to communicative use outside it. The goals of this method is students should be able to use the language for self-expression-to e...

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THE DIRECT METHOD Introduction Direct Method was revived as a method when the goal of instruction became learning how to use a foreign language to communicate. Because the Grammar-Translation Method was not very effective in preparing students to use the target language communicatively. The Direct Method has one basic rule : No translation is allowed. In this method, use of demonstration and visual aids. Experience The lesson is entitled 'Looking at a Map', as the students are called on one by one, they read a sentence from the reading passage at the beginning of the lesson. After the students finish reading the passage, they are asked if they have any questions. If students asked, so the teacher with drawing or gesture to make students understand. Thinking about the Experience 1.Reading in target language should be taught from the beginning of language instruction. Language is primarily speech. Culture consists of more than the fine arts. 2.Teachers use realia or picture as ob...

THE GRAMMAR-TRANSLATION METHOD Introduction The Grammar-Translation Method was called the Classical Method since it was first used in the teaching of the classical language, Latin and Greek ( Chastain 1988 ). This method was used for the purpose of helping students read and appreciate foreign language literature. It was also hoped that, through the study of grammar of the target language, students would become more familiar with the grammar of their native language and that this familiarity would help them speak and write their native language better. Experience The class reading a passage in their text book, entitled 'The Boy's Ambition' from Mark Twain's Life on the Mississippi. Each students is called on to read a few lines from the passage. After they have finished reading, they are asked to translate into Spanish the few lines they have just read. The teacher helps them with new vocabulary items. Announcing the next activity, the teacher asks the students to turn t...