SUMMARY OF DIRECT METHOD

SUMMARY OF DIRECT METHOD

The principle of direct method

What are the goals of teachers who use the direct method ?
Teachers who use the direct method intend that students learn how to communicate in the target language.

What is the role of the teacher ? What is the role of the students ?
Although the teacher directs the class activities, the student role is less passive than in the grammar-translation method. The teacher and the students are more like partners in the teaching/ learning process.

What are some characteristic of teaching / learning process?
Teacher who use the direct method believe students need to associate meaning nd the target language directly.

What is the nature of student – teacher interaction? What is the nature of student – student interaction?
The initiation of the interaction goes both ways, from teacher to student and from student to teacher, although the latter is often teacher directed. Student converses with one another as well.

How are the feelings of students dealth with?
There are no principles of the method which relate to this area.

How is language viewed? How is culture viewed?
Language is primarily spoken, not written. Therefore, students study common, everyday speech in the target language.

What areas of language are emphasized? What language skills are emphasized?
The reading and writing exercise based upon what the students practice orally first. Pronunciation also receives attention right from the beginning of a course.

What is the role of the students’ native language?
The students’ native language should not be used in the classroom.

How is the evaluation accomplished?
We did not actually see any formal evaluation in the classwe observed, however, in the direct method students are asked to use the language, not to demonstrate their knowlwdge about the language.

How does the teacher respond to student errors?
The teacher, employing various techniques, tries to get students to self – correct whenever possible.
The 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 blank exercise
6. dictation
7. map drawing
8. paragraph writing