<div><span style='text-decoration: underline; background-color: #ffffff; color: #003366;'><strong>AUDIOLINGUAL METHOD</strong></span></div>

Teacher: I have been having hiccups.

Student: I have been writing letters.

Which audiolingual drill is used in the example above?

Transformation Drill

Backward Build-up (expansion) Drill

Multiple-slot Substitution Drill

Single-slot Substitution Drill

Match column A with column B and choose the correct response.

The students repeat each line of the dialogue

To learn to respond to both verbal and nonverbal stimuli

The teacher uses spoken cues and picture cues

Language learning is a process of habit formation

The teacher says, 'Very good' after a correct response

Positive reinforcement helps in developing correct habits

The teacher immediately corrects any errors made by the students

Formation of bad habits should be stopped

The teacher introduces the dialogue by meticulously repeating it twice; she corrects the mispronunciations of the students by producing the proper sounds in the target language.

The above mentioned role of the teacher denotes which principle of the audiolingual method?

The teacher has to be a native speaker of the target language

the teacher is a model of the target language

The teacher is a facilitator in the language classroom

The teacher is a superior imitator of the target language.

What does the audiolingual method have in common with the direct approach?

Both are oral-based approaches

Both follow the natural order of skill acquisition

Both have strong theoretical bases

Both a and b

In an audio lingual classroom, vocabulary is taught through

Translating into the mother tongue

Reading stories in the target language

Dialogues, actions, pictures, or realia

understanding its etymology

Each language has a finite number of patterns and pattern practice helps to form habits which enable the students to use the patterns.

This principle of audiolingual method denotes which theoretical bases

Structural linguistics and behaviourism

Comparative linguistics and psychology

Anthropological linguistics and philosophy

Applied linguistics and stylistics

Which of the following utilises audiolingual method of teaching?

The teacher asks the students to imagine that they are at a seaside restaurant, then she asks them to come up with a dialogue where they request the waiter for help with the menu.

The teacher reads a passage from the textbook and gives the meaning of the difficult words. Then she asks them to write new sentences using the vocabulary they have learnt.

The teacher asks the students to come up with sentences orally based on a particular grammatical structure that they have been introduced to, without explaining the grammatical aspect behind it.

The teacher plays music at the beginning of the class. Later, she asks the students to tell a story based on the music they have heard.

A student makes a serious mistake during the repetition drill. How does an Audiolingual teacher react?

Restates the word and works briefly with the student to improve his/her pronunciation

Makes the student repeat the word on his/her own without giving the correct pronunciation

Lets the student finish the drill and then corrects the error by restating it him/herself.

Asks the student questions in such a way that the student realises and corrects the mistake.

AUDIOLINGUAL METHOD

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