Audio-lingual method

This method was developed  in the united states during world war Ii.At that time there was a need  for people to learn foreign languages rapidly for military purposes.During the second world,American government  needed the personnel who were fluent in foreign languages such as German,French,Italian,Chinese  and others then in 1942, the Army specialized training program was established . Fifty five American university were involved in the program.The objective of the program was for students to attain conversational proficiency in a variety of foreign language.For this,they need new approaches of language teaching linguists such as Leonard broom field had already developed  a training program as part of their linguistic research that were designed to give linguists and anthropologists mastery of American Indian language and other languages they were studying.During  this period ,many linguists were teaching English as a foreign language.Many students also entered America for their higher studies.For this, they had to be trained in English . These factors resulted the emergence of the American  approach  to ESL (English as second language) which was known as Audio-lingual ism in the mid fifties.In 1939 the university of Michigan  had developed the first English language institute in foreign language and in teaching English as a second  or foreign language.Charles fries,director of the institute applied the principles of structural.