Audiolingual and Audiovisual method

AUDIOLINGUAL AND AUDIOVISUAL METHODS

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AUDIOLINGUAL METHOD

Morphemes are the unitswhich shape phrase and sentence structures.

Very important oral skills practice.

Language learning is essentially a habit training based in stimulus and response.

Language is speech, not writing

Pay attention to the behavioral response

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AUDIOVISUAL METHOD

Students imagine dialoges and they have to repoduce after

It is very important to include context to give meaning.

This method take the repeticion as an habit

Communications is the aim

Based in Gestalt phycology: from a total view to its parts

what they have in common with behaviourist accounts

Imitation and practice to crate an habit and develop the language

It is important the context

Stimulus and positive reinforcement

Based in what students hear around them

Audiovisual method is a reaction to traditional methods also. Based in the use of technology, in this case filmstrips like comics

Traditional behaviourists believed that language learning is simply a matter of imitations and habit formation.

Audiolingual method is a reaction to traditional methods. Based in the use of technology, in this case audios and recordings.