The Audio-Lingual Method Quiz

What are the goals of teachers who use the Audio-Lingual Method?

• Learning a language is to be able to read literature written.

• Students should be able to use the language for self-expression.

• Teachers want their students to be able to use the target language communicatively and they have to speak automatically without stopping to think.

What is the role of the teacher?

• The teacher is like an orchestra leader, directing and controlling the language behavior of her students.

• The teacher directs the class activities.

• The role is very traditional, he is the authority.

What is the role of the students?

• The teacher and the students are more like partners in the teaching–learning process.

• The students do as the teacher says so they can learn what she knows.

• Students are imitators of the teacher’s model; they follow the teacher’s directions and respond as accurately and as rapidly as possible.

What are some characteristics of the teaching/learning process?

• New vocabulary and grammar are learning through dialogues.

• To give the meaning of a new word or phrase use realia, pictures or pantomime.

• The dialogues are learned through imitation and repetition.

• Use of drills.

• The dialogs are contextualized.

What areas of language are emphasized?

• Listening, speaking, reading, and writing

• Pronunciation, grammar

• Listening, pronunciation, grammar

• Speaking, listening, grammar

How is evaluation accomplished?

• Discrete, each question on the test would focus on only one point of the language at a time.

• No formal evaluation.

• Formal evaluation.

How does the teacher respond to student errors?

• If students make errors or do not know an answer, the teacher supplies them with the correct answer.

• The teacher, employing various techniques, tries to get students to self-correct whenever possible.

• Student errors are to be avoided if at all possible