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Direct Method

1. The direct method teaches foreign languages through using the target language exclusively in the classroom without translation. New vocabulary is taught through pictures and objects, and grammar is taught inductively. 2. Speaking is emphasized before reading and writing. Classroom activities like questions/answers, dictation, and map drawing are done solely in the target language. 3. The teacher demonstrates and facilitates learning while students actively practice the language through self-correction. The goal was to develop oral proficiency in a natural way similar to acquiring a first language.

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Direct Method

1. The direct method teaches foreign languages through using the target language exclusively in the classroom without translation. New vocabulary is taught through pictures and objects, and grammar is taught inductively. 2. Speaking is emphasized before reading and writing. Classroom activities like questions/answers, dictation, and map drawing are done solely in the target language. 3. The teacher demonstrates and facilitates learning while students actively practice the language through self-correction. The goal was to develop oral proficiency in a natural way similar to acquiring a first language.

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Direct method ppt

1. Background of direct method


In the mid and late 19 century, europe experience a wave of increasing opportunities of
communicating, due to industrialization and international trade and travel
A need was felt to develop oral proficiency in foreign language. Its principal they
proposed what they called natural method that suggest radical change from grammar-
translation it method that later on came to be known as the direct method
2. Definition of direct method
Direct Method is named "direct" because meaning should be connected directly with the
target language without translation into to the native language Concept/meaning Target
language
3. Principles of direct method
Classroom instruction is conducted in the target language ( no translate , demonstrate )
Only everyday vocabulary
Vocabulary is taught through pictures and objects.
Grammar is taught inductively
Students are encouraged to think in the target language
4. Speaking is taught first before reading or writing
Translation is completely banished from any classroom activity. Classroom activities are
carried out only in the target language
5. Techniques of direct method
1.Reading aloud
2. Question and answer exercise
3. Getting students to self-correct
4. Conversation practice
5. Fill-in-the-blanks
6. Dictation
7. Map drawing
8. Paragraph writing.
6. The Role of Teacher
Teachers introduce a new target language word or phrase to the students and there is no
mother tongue.
Demonstrate.
Facilitator
Monitor
The teacher is the source
Learning by self-correction
7. The Role of student
The teacher and the students are more like partners in the teaching/learning process.
The students should be active learner.
Observer and practitioner the target language
8. The Advantages
In this method they are quick at understanding spoken English They can converse
English so easy because in teaches the second/foreign language in the same way as one
learns one’s mother tongue.
There are no gap/different with active and passive vocabularies
This sound principles of education.
9. The disadvantages
To be that second language should be learned without pay attention first language.
Difficult in language learning process.
Compare learning of second language
10. The goals of direct method
Although parts of this method are still used today. It was largely been overtaken by the
audio-lingual method. Where the focus wasn’t vocabulary, so lesson now to conversation
real everyday .

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