Techniques in Audio-Lingual Method

7 Teacher gives a dialog and asks students to memorize the dialog and practice it. Students memorize the dialog through mimicry and take the role of one person in the dialog. So, the students should switch the roles and memorize the other person’s part. The teacher checks the pattern and grammar which are included in the dialog. 2 Repetition Drill Students repeat what the teacher utters as quickly as possible and the teachers are not allowed to do mistakes because the teacher is a model or example for the students. 3 Question and Answer Drills Teacher gives some questions and they have to answer quickly. This gives students practice with the question patterns. 4 Complete the Dialog Students have to complete the dialog by filling in the blanks with the missing words or list of words.

4. Desuggestopedia

This method helps students eliminate the feeling that they cannot be successful toward studying. The teachers also hope that students can learn to use a foreign language for everyday communication through teaching and learning process. Teacher is the authority in the classroom and students must trust and respect them in order this method to be successful. Desuggestopedic course is conducted in a classroom which is bright and cheerful. In this method vocabulary and speaking communicatively are emphasized. Grammar is dealt with explicitly but minimally. Native-language translation also used to make the instructions clear. Error also corrected gently. 8 Techniques associated to this method are: 1 Classroom set-up The teacher should create a classroom environment which is bright and cheerful. Besides that, teacher also should provide as positive an environment as possible. 2 Role Play The students are asked to perform and create a new situation using the target language. They can create a conversation or tell a story individually. 3 Creative Adaption The teacher gives many kinds of activities designed to help students learn the new material and use it spontaneously. The activities include singing, dancing, dramatization, and games.

5. Communicative Language Teaching

The goal is help students to communicate in the target language. The characteristic of CLT is that almost everything is done with a communicative intention. Here, students interact with one another and motivate to study a foreign language since they are learning to do something useful with the language. Techniques associated to this method are: 1 Authentic Materials The purpose is to overcome the typical problem that students cannot transfer what they learn in the classroom to the outside world and to expose students to natural language in a variety of situations. 2 Picture Strip Story Many activities can be done with picture strip story. Such as: scrambled sentences, matching pictures, guessing words, etc. it gives students practice in negotiating the meaning.