Lists of Audio-Lingual MaterialsThis discussion thread, and the contributions that so many members have made to it, have served as something of an education for me. In addition, it has provided momentum for, and helped me focus on, my own searches of audio-lingual method course materials. As it happens, in the period when this method of teaching was popular, there were far more offerings from American publishers than I had previously imagined! The primary source that I used for a list of audio-lingual courses was the ERIC website and I have appended below links to a number lists of materials that were prepared in the 1960’s and 1970’s. Please note that, in numerous cases, I have abbreviated the full document titles. In addition,
in cases where an ERIC document treats more than one language, I have included it under each of the individual sub-groups.GermanED038068 German Recorded and Audio-Visual Materialshttps://eric.ed.gov/?q=ed038068ED039791 Audio-Lingual Drills for Foreign Language Teachinghttps://eric.ed.gov/?q=ED017514ED033631 Deutsch Durch Audio-Visuelle Methodehttps://eric.ed.gov/?q=Audio-Lingual+Program+Materials&pg=5&id=ED033631German: Verstehen und Sprechen, Sprechen und Lesen, et cetera Using the above information, I tracked down a number of German course materials, the most notable of which (putting the A-LM series aside for the moment), would be the four-volume series authored by Rehder, Thomas, Twaddell, O'Connor, published by Holt, Rinehart, Winston as
Verstehen und Sprechen, Sprechen und Lesen, et cetera which I found to be remarkably similar to the A-LM series in scope if not somewhat superior.
FrenchED016428 Audio-Lingual Language Programming Revised French Programhttps://eric.ed.gov/?q=Recorded+and+Audio-Lingual+Materials&id=ED016428ED020706 A Supplement for French and Italian to the 1962 Selective List of Materialshttps://eric.ed.gov/?q=ED020706ED039791 Audio-Lingual Drills for Foreign Language Teachinghttps://eric.ed.gov/?q=ED017514ED083883 Teaching Materials for French. Supplementary Materialshttps://eric.ed.gov/?q=Recorded+and+Audio-Visual+Materials&id=ED083883ED059643 A Comparison of an Audio-Lingual Program and an Audio-Lingual-Visual Program for Beginning French Instructionhttps://eric.ed.gov/?q=ED059643SpanishED038069 Spanish Recorded and Audio-Visual Materialshttps://eric.ed.gov/?q=ed038069ED039791 Audio-Lingual Drills for Foreign Language Teachinghttps://eric.ed.gov/?q=ED017514ItalianED038067 Italian Recorded and Audio-Visual Materialshttps://eric.ed.gov/?q=ed038067ED020706 A Supplement for French and Italian to the 1962 Selective List of Materialshttps://eric.ed.gov/?q=ED020706ED039791 Audio-Lingual Drills for Foreign Language Teachinghttps://eric.ed.gov/?q=ED017514ED083884 Teaching Materials for Italian. Supplementaryhttps://eric.ed.gov/?q=Recorded+and+Audio-Visual+Materials&id=ED083884RussianED038070 Russian Recorded and Audio-Visual Materialshttps://eric.ed.gov/?q=ED038070ED039791 Audio-Lingual Drills for Foreign Language Teachinghttps://eric.ed.gov/?q=ED017514ED011751 Bibliography of Materials: Russian Studieshttps://eric.ed.gov/?q=ED011751ED048807 Russian for Secondary Schools: A Guide to Minimum Essentialshttps://eric.ed.gov/?q=Russian+For+Secondary+Schools+(A+Guide+to+Minimum+Essentials)&id=ED048807General InterestED017514 Audio-lingual Methods in the Language Arts Programhttps://eric.ed.gov/?q=ED017514ED059643 A Comparison of an Audio-Lingual Program and an Audio-Lingual-Visual Program for Beginning French Instructionhttps://eric.ed.gov/?q=ED059643Die Audiolinguale (ALM) und Audiovisuelle Methode (AVM)http://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=20&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwiP0Y_v8qTRAhUEyGMKHRHlAPE4ChAWCFEwCQ&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.armyacademy.ro%2Fbiblioteca%2Fanuare%2F2003%2FAUDILINGUALE.pdf&usg=AFQjCNGaOKhoVtoIq-Dd96NbPWMbfJP4XQ&bvm=bv.142059868,d.cGcAvailability of MaterialsMany of the course books are still available via
Amazon, AbeBooks, Alibris, eBay and similar websites. Although I have added a number of books to my collection of vintage materials, I have had only limited success in acquiring the corresponding audio recordings without which I would classify most of the textbooks as “for connoisseurs only.”
EDITED:
Edited several times during the process of copying/pasting the links to the ERIC documents.
Subsequent addition of the links to the documents:
-Die Audiolinguale (ALM) und Audiovisuelle Methode (AVM)
-Bibliography of Materials: Russian Studies
-Russian for Secondary Schools: A Guide to Minimum Essentials