Second Language Teaching through Audio Lingual Method and Conventional Approach at Upper Primary Level of Birbhum District: An Experimental Study

Teaching second language in the ESL classroom situation is a rigorous and important assignment for the ESL teacher. The ESL teacher makes hectic effort to generate the four basic language skills among the learners who form mixed group in the class. Now which method is strategically significant in terms of classroom application is a persistent and pertinent question to the ELT experts. Some practitioners of Audio-lingual method thinks that language is basically a means of habit formation through repetition. Again some teachers stick to the stereotyped conventional approach based on the principles of Grammar Translation method. The present study is an attempt to explore experimentally the comparative effectiveness of the Audio-lingual method of teaching and teaching with Conventional approach in the second language classroom situation.