e. For a definite arrangement in the near future and is the most usual way of expressing one’s immediate plans:
For example: A: Are you doing anything tonight?
B: Yes, I’m going to my judo class and I’m meeting my brother afterwards, etc.
Note that the time of the action must be mentioned, as otherwise, there might be confusing between present and future meanings go
and come however, can be used in thus way without a time expression
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B. General Concept of Audio-Lingual Method
1. Definition of Method
Method is an overall plan for the orderly presentation of language material, no part of which contradicts, and all of which based upon, the
selected approach.
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According to B. Kumaravadivelu San Jose State University “Method
is central to any language teaching enterprise.
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Another meaning said that method is the practical realization of an approach. The originators of method have arrived at decisions about types
of activities, roles of teachers and learners, the kinds of material which will be helpful and some model of syllabus organization.
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. From the definition above the writer comes to an assumption that a
method is procedural plan that used in the classroom. There are many methods that can be actualized in the teaching learning process but to
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A. J. Thomson and A. V. Martinet. A Practical English Grammar: London: Oxford University Press, 1976, fourth edition. p. 155
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Jack C. Richards and Theodore S. Rodgers, Approaches and Method in Language Teaching, Cambridge: London Cambridge University Press, 1986, p. 15
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B. Kumaravadivelu San Jose State University, Understanding Language
Teaching, New York: Routledge, 2009, p. 83
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Jeremy Harmer, The Practice of English Language Teaching. fourth edition Cambridge UK: Pearson Longman, 2007, p. 25
make teaching learning run well, teachers have to choose which method is regarded as the best. In this paper the writer would like to discuss one
of those methods that are audio-lingual method.
2. Understanding Audio-Lingual Method
The audio-Lingual method of teaching English as a second language had its origins during World War II when it becomes know as the Army
method. It was develop as a reaction to the grammar-translation method of teaching foreign languages. Grammar-translation had been use to teach
for thousand of year. However, the method was perceived as taking too long for learners to be able to speak in the target language. The Audio-
Lingual method set out achieves quick communicative competence through innovative methods. From about, 1947-1967 the Audio-Lingual
Approach was the dominant foreign language teaching method in the United States.
The US military provided the impetus with funding for special, intensive language courses that focused on auraloral skills; these courses
came to be known as the Army Specialized Training program ASTP or, more colloquially, the “Army Method”.
3. Characteristics of Audio-Lingual Method
