audio-lingualadj.
/ˌɔːdɪəʊˈlɪŋɡw(ə)l/, U.S. /ˌɔdioʊˈlɪŋɡwəl/, /ˌɑdioʊˈlɪŋɡwəl/ Originally U.S. Chiefly historical in later use.
Of a theory or approach in the teaching of foreign languages: based on a system of drills in which the student repeats or adapts model sentences delivered orally or played aloud by the teacher. See audio-lingualism n.
ΘΚΠ
society > education > teaching > [adjective] > other methods of teaching
scholastical?a1475
scholastic1483
maieutic1656
maieutical1678
demonstrative1805
peripatetic1890
free activity1929
hypnopaedic1932
show-and-tell1945
audio-active1958
programmed1958
audio-lingual1959
mother tongue1960
immersion1965
distance-based1979
1959 Naugatuck (Connecticut) Daily News Aug. 2/4 The course in methodology..stressed the new audio-lingual approach to modern foreign-language teaching.
1962 Mod. Lang. Jrnl. Nov. 307/2 If language teachers do not reincorporate an unobtrusive grammatical content into the audio-lingual method, they may..come to merit the appellation..‘little men with tape recorders’.
1977 D. M. Taylor et al. in H. Glass Lang., Ethnicity & Intergroup Relations iv. 100 The traditional grammar-translation methods and even the newer audio-lingual approaches..have generally proved less than satisfactory.
1984 Jrnl. Res. in Reading 7 3 The role and influence of the audiolingual component on the learning process.
2004 R. Hawkey Modular Approach to testing Eng. Lang. Skills i. 7 The audio-lingual method proposed the teaching of the four language skills in the order of listening, speaking, reading and writing.
Derivatives
audio-ˈlingually adv. using the audio-lingual approach.
ΘΚΠ
society > education > teaching > [adverb] > methods of teaching
hypnopaedically1932
audio-lingually1960
1960 Hispania 43 64/2 A group of high school youngsters who had been drilled audio-lingually for five weeks.
1974 French Rev. 48 20 The George Sherer experiment..was to compare proficiency results between audio-lingually and traditionally taught students.
1998 K. Johnson & H. Johnson Encycl. Dict. Appl. Linguistics 214/1 Learners taught by grammar-translation read and write the language better than those taught audiolingually.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2013; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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adj.1959