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Students read aloud a passage or a dialog in turns then to make students understand the materials; teacher can use realia, picture, examples to
make the meaning of the section clear or gestures. 2
Questions and Answer Exercise Questions and Answer Exercise is a technique which is used by the teacher
to chec k students’ understanding about the reading passage. In this
technique is more concentrate on speaking by asking and answer questions. This activity uses the target language and no native language
allowed. So, students can practice the new words and grammatical structures.
3 Dictation
The teacher reads a reading passage three times. At the firs time, teacher reads in normal speed and the students just listen. Second, teacher reads
phrase by phrase with several pauses and sometimes long pause to give time for students to write down what they have heard. Finally, teacher
rereads the whole passage with normal speed and students check their work.
3. Techniques in Audio-Lingual Method
The purpose of this method is to enable students to use the target language communicatively. Audio-Lingual Method drills students in the use of
grammatical sentence pattern. The teacher gives dialogs that contain new vocabulary and presented through imitation and repetition drills such as
repetition, backward build-up, chain, and question-and-answer. Those are conducted based upon the patterns in the dialog.
Techniques associated to this method are: 1
Dialog Memorization
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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.
