The audio-lingual method is a foreign-language teaching approach developed in the United States during and after the Second World War, drawing on behaviorist learning theory and structural linguistics, that drills students through repeated oral pattern practice, dialog memorization and habit-formation exercises rather than explicit grammar explanation, on the premise that language learning is a matter of forming correct automatic responses. It dominated American language instruction through the 1950s and 1960s before its behaviorist foundations drew sustained academic criticism.
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Central QuestionCan repeated oral drilling and habit formation, grounded in behaviorist reinforcement, train correct language responses in students 1 Most Effective ForDeveloping listening and speaking skills through rigorous oral drilling, though its behaviorist foundations were later discredited 1 Connections
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Audio-Lingual Method's own live entity-description: developed in the US during and after WWII, drawing on behaviorist learning theory and structural linguistics.
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1. Audio-lingual method - Wikipedia
Introduction section
It is based on behaviorist theory, which postulates that certain traits of living things, and in this case humans, could be trained through a system of reinforcement.
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Listening and speaking skills are emphasized and, especially the former, rigorously developed.
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