I have learned two languages pretty well by the audio-lingual approach, which rarely if ever overtly explains why. From Wordnik.com. [Vale] Reference
I started teaching in 1985, using the methods I had been taught in university, from the traditional Grammar-Translation,the audio-lingual and the cognitive methods, to the humanistic approaches to language teaching the silent way,the comprehension approach and suggestopaedia. From Wordnik.com. [Guest post 9 – Melania Paduraru on Romanians speaking English and other political matters… « Ken Wilson's Blog] Reference
Notwithstanding, the teaching of EFL pronunciation has received varied treatment from having no room in the synthetic syllabus and the grammar-translation method to being the cardinal focus in the situational syllabus and the audio-lingual method in which emphasis is put on the traditional notions of pronunciation, minimal pairs, drills and mini-conversations. From Wordnik.com. [Teaching Efl Pronunciation: Why, What and How? « Articles « Literacy News] Reference
More in “Drill like me”, if I get around to writing it: I think the real money is in an audio-lingual corpus communicative memorization neo-linguistic programmaring.). From Wordnik.com. [S is for “Strategies” « An A-Z of ELT] Reference
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