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A Review of the Audiolingual Method

Ruirui Zeng
Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 38-41, 2025 DOI: 10.54691/efsp2d86 January 21, 2025
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Abstract.Based on American structuralism and behaviorism, the Audiolingual Method is a system of foreign language teaching methodology that focuses on the development of listening and speaking skills by using sentence patterns as the outline and sentence drills as the center. It emphasizes teaching methods that combine auditory perception with visual perception in certain situations. The Audiolingual Method is widely used in second language teaching and this paper briefly summarize this method and give the author’s own comment.
Keywords. The Audiolingual Method; Behaviorism; Language Teaching; Practice.
APA Citation Ruirui Zeng (2025). A Review of the Audiolingual Method. Frontiers in Sustainable Development, 5(1), 38-41. https://doi.org/10.54691/efsp2d86

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