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7. The teacher may select certain key structures or

sentences from the dialogue and use as the basis for

pattern drills of different kinds. The selection is based

on the current speaking material that is being

learned in class.

8. Then, these are practiced in chorus and the

individually.

9. After all this process, the students should

memorize certain key sentences or structure from the

dialogue.

10. Then, the last process of speaking activity is that the

teacher divides the students into a group of two

and asks them to practice all the dialogue from the

text book in front the class.

3. Characteristic of the Audio-lingual Method

Brown (2007: 111) has summarized the characteristics of

audio-lingual method as follows:

a. New material is presented in dialog form.

b. There is dependence on mimicry, memorization of set

phrases, and over learning.

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