The topic of this essay will be the audiolingual method which is a teaching method used for the first time from the 1950s until the 1970s, although one can easily state that the method is regularly used in modern language teaching. This essay will describe the functionality and history of the audio-lingual method and evaluate its use compared to other traditional teaching approaches. However, before analyzing the method itself, it is necessary to recognize two factors in order to understand the method. These factors concern the functionality of the method and the theory on which it is based. First, language analysis was becoming increasingly important, and structural linguistics was seen as the best way forward after grammatical analysis had come under heavy scrutiny in Western culture due to its imprecision. in language acquisition in a real-life context where the learner would put the language into direct use in a different country. Other important factors responsible for the rise of structural linguistics were the increased interest in countries with unique grammatical structures and phonetic languages, as well as a growing popularity in the idea of ​​empiricism. Because of this interest in the foreign grammatical structure, it was decided to document the natural foreign language and analyze it first from a phonetic point of view so that the separate sounds could be classified and then the phonemic meaning was researched to understand the linguistic pattern total. The reason for this documentation was to preserve the language of the Native American tribes before they disappeared due to the rapid development and urbanization of America. Alongside the rise of structural linguistics as a language use was the rise of interest in behavioral...... middle of article ...... theory of audio-based language learning and learning of a language based on a real-life context. Works Cited Techniques and Principles in Language Teaching (Freeman 2nd Edition) (2000) OUP http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnLWSC5p1XEhttp://www.chomsky.info/articles/1967---- .htmhttp://www.scribd.com/doc/14386148/Approaches-and-Methods-in-Language-Teaching0521312558http:// books.google.co.uk/books?hl=en&lr=&id=aaTzWwZ87tUC&oi=fnd&pg=PA225&dq =audiolingualism&ots=ox2AeC0PoV&sig=ATb5ayc333X97hcl2UO0FwABni0#v=onepage&q=audiolingualism&f=falsehttp://www.onestopenglish.com/section.asp? docido= 146488http://books.google.co.uk/books?hl=en&lr=&id=gibu9KpIUugC&oi=fnd&pg=PA1&dq=behaviorism+language+teaching&ots=R20O3Q-rXm&sig=HSvZxQdn8m3w653PDxBY0_4DXJQ#v=snippet& q=audiolingualism&f=falsehttp:// www. jstor.org/stable/3294807?seq=2