Grammar-Translation Method Direct Method

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The Direct Method The Direct Method came to the teaching method as a reaction to the Grammar-Translation method. We already knew that the Grammar-Translation method focuses on how to enable students read the literature and understand grammar. It has nothing to do with the communication. Therefore, the idea of learning foreign languages has changed. The direct method is the first shift to change the old methods of teaching. This method has goals and principles, techniques, advantages and disadvantages and there are roles of teachers and students helping to apply it. The main goals of this method are to focus on pronunciation rather than grammatical rules, and to enable learners listen and speak the target language spontaneously. Actually, it…show more content…
Encouraging students to think in the target language and take the traditions, customs and daily life conversation into their accounts. 5. Speaking is taught before other skills. 6. Grammar is inductively taught. For example, a teacher presents sentences and students find out the rules that are applied. There are some techniques that can be applied in the direct method. First, starting to read the text aloud and this helps practicing listening. Second, after reading the text, students start to answer the questions in general, and they try to bring their background knowledge (top-down knowledge). Third, practicing role-playing, especially when there is a conversation. Fourth, students practice using vocabularies to fill in the blanks. Fifth, teachers start dictating their students words which can help them to be accurate. Finally, paragraph writing is the way that learners can express their feelings and what they understood. There are advantages of direct method. First, students can practice listening and speaking and this helps them to be more fluent. Second, they learn how to communicate in the target

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