انگلیسی: آموزش، زبانشناسی، ترجمه، ادبیات

Conclusion

So far, we have weighed up the key components of ALM and CLT. Many others are left for further investigation in other studies. To have a better understanding of similarities and differences of these two methods, one can compare and contrast other facets in parallel.

Although LTM has experienced many changes during last century, the purpose of this research was to provide the readers with some key information regarding the two very prominent methods of teaching called Audiolingual Method and Communicative Language teaching. The researcher tried to come to this conclusion that shifting from ALM to CLT was a huge step toward a more desirable way of teaching and learning. This has been accomplished through juxtaposing the tenets of these methods. The first part of the present study was devoted to a brief history of teaching, language teaching and the necessities of it. Then, the main trends in LTM were presented. At the next stage, a detailed description of ALM and CLT was set forth. Afterwards, a discussion was delivered to give more evidence on the shortcomings and lucrative factors of the methods.

After all, the CLT seems to be a good alternative for the previous well-known but in efficient ALM. This has been rendered with reference to weak points of the latter method in its theory of language, structuralism, and theory of learning, behaviorism. Moreover, the activities of ALM such as mimicry-memorization, pattern drills, and repetition of drills, dialogs, and utterances were proved inefficient and in some cases deteriorating. It is worth mentioning that the focus of teaching has moved from teaching grammatical points and overlearning of the materials to enhancing learners' communicative competence and teaching the instructional materials in meaningful contexts. All these reasons along with many other changes such as shifting from teacher-centerness to learner-centerness or structural syllabus to notional-functional syllabus bring about the superiority of the CLT over the ALM in providing a more efficient and applicable method of teaching.

Finally, we must bear in mind that there is nothing perfect. LTM, by no means, is an exception. Changes do occur out of control rapidly. But till these changes are at work, we keep on moving forward. So, to get close to the desired utopia, we should not stop but keep on running.