Based on the text above, it can be concluded that the role of instructional material consists of students’ textbook, teacher’s book, tape recorder and audiovisual
equipment.
h. Procedure of Audio-lingual Method
In teaching the simple present tense in the control class using audio-lingual method, the writer using the following procedures:
1 The teacher introduces a new dialogue.
2 The language teacher uses only the target language in the classroom. Actions,
pictures, or realia are used to give meaning otherwise. 3
The language teacher introduces the dialogue by modeling it two times, she introduces the drills by modeling the correct answer; at other times, and she
corrects mispronunciation by modeling the proper sound in the target language.
4 The students repeat each line of the new dialogue several times.
5 The students stumble over one of the lines of the dialog. The teacher uses a
backward build up drill with this line. 6
The teacher initiates a chain drill in which each student greets another. 7
The teacher uses single-slot and multiple-slot substitution drills. 8
The teacher says, “Very good,” when the students answer correctly. 9
The teacher uses spoken cues and picture cues. 10 The teacher conducts transformation and question and answer drills.
11 When the students can handle it, the teacher poses the question to them rapidly.
12 The teacher provides the students with cues, she calls on individuals; she smiles encouragements, she holds up pictures one after another.
13 New vocabulary is introduced through lines of the dialogue; vocabulary is limited.
14 The teacher does a contrastive analysis of the target language and the students’ native language in order to locate the place where she anticipates her
students will have trouble. 15 The teacher writes the dialog on the whiteboard toward the end of the week.
The students do some limited written work with the dialog.
i. Strengths and Weakness of Audio-lingual Method
The writer concludes the strengths and weakness of Audio-lingual Method from the book of Jack C. Richard “Approach and Method in Language Teaching”.
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1 Strengths of Audio-lingual Method
The strengths of Audio-lingual Method as mention below: Students are able to make sentence pattern, which have been drilled.
Students have good pronunciation. It makes students to have a good comprehension in listening.
2 Weakness of Audio-lingual Method
Beside the strength, the weakness of the Audio-lingual Method likes mention below:
Students do not always understand the meaning of word that they are
repeating. Studying using Audio-lingual procedures is boring and unsatisfying.
The students are not really active because it is a teacher dominated
method.
B. CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK
Learning is a process. It is said to be a process, because there is something to do input and result of the process output. In the teaching-learning process, a learner as raw input has
specific characteristics. The factors influencing learners in the teaching-learning process are curriculum, teachers, facilities, and management that work in a school.
The student’s successful is influenced by the English teacher method in teaching English. If the teacher uses a good method and interest for students, so the teaching learning
process will be good too and make students enjoy for learning English. In learning English, the students sometimes have a problems especially with grammar,
some students think that it is boring subject and when they learn English they try to avoid the grammar because it is such confusing rules and hard when they have to study grammar
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Jack Richard and Theodore S. Rodgers, Approaches and Methods ... p. 44-63
