Methods of teaching foreign languages Introduction
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3.Methods of teaching foreign languages
The audio-lingual method
Apart from many of its strengths, the Audio-lingual method was not completely free from its weaknesses and flaws. Behaviourist assumptions underlying this method have come under severe criticism. The importance given to achieve ‘oral accuracy’ only has prompted many linguists to question the very necessity of a teacher. Albert Valdman(1904, P. 36) has criticized “the exaggerated emphasis on oral drilling” in this method. Decanny (1963, p. 192- 193) has the following to say about mechanical drilling. He says: “Drills are inherently unnatural, contrived examples of the use of language. Humanising these devices is left to the teacher. Unless the students are stimulated by variety, novelty, and a quick change of cues, they may be mouthing meaningless sentences and in this unwilling frame of mind no learning takes place.”Decanny (1963, p. 192-193) In spite of the strong objection to the mechanical drilling, many pedagogues see some values in this method. In this regard K. Chastain (1972, p. 35) writes: “to harvest these values the method must be made more responsive to the students’ intellectual needs. The methods of drill and pattern have proved pedagogically very sound. Therefore, the language teacher should devise methods to make the drills more meaningful and interesting bringing in real communicative situations outside the classroom”. Thus, no Audio-lingual method can, however, be successful in the absence of a qualified, trained, inventive and resourceful teacher. Machines cannot replace teachers. The approach is and ought to be teacher-centred; that is to say, the aids require planned utilization by specially trained teachers. The high incidence of poorly qualified teachers only increases the waste of student time and publicresources. Good teachers and good materials are an indispensable condition for the successful implementation of any scheme of teaching English as a second language. Download 281.72 Kb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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