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 Goals of teachers who use the Direct Method

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 Goals of teachers who use the Direct Method

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Teachers who use the Direct Method intend that students learn how to communicate in the target language. In order to do this successfully, students should learn to think in the target language.

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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 mor

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Characteristics of the teaching/learning process

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Characteristics of the teaching/learning process

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* Teachers believe students need to associate meaning with the target language directly.

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Teacher never translates the information into the students’ native language.

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The syllabus used in the Direct Method is based upon situations.

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Grammar is taught inductively; that is, the students are presented with examples and they figure out the rule or generalization from the examples.

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Students practice vocabulary by using new words in complete sentences.

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The initiation of the interaction goes both ways, from teacher to students and from students to teacher, although the latter is often teacher-directed. Students

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 The nature of student–teacher and student–student interaction

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 The nature of student–teacher and student–student interaction

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Language is primarily spoken, not written. Therefore, students study common, everyday speech in the target language. They also study culture consisting of the history of the people who speak the target language, the geography of the country or countries where the language is spoken, and information about the daily lives of the speakers of the language.

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Vocabulary is emphasized over grammar. Although work on all four skills (reading,writing, speaking, and listening) occurs from the start, oral communication is

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Although there is no formal evaluation, students might be interviewed orally by the teacher ormight be asked to write a paragraph about something they have studied.

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Teacher tries to get students to self-correct whenever possible.

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Students take turns reading sections of a passage, play, or dialogue out loud. 

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This exercise is conducted only in the target language. Students are asked questions and answer in full sentences so that they practice new words and grammatical structures. They have the opportunity to ask questions as well as answer them.

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The teacher of this class has the students self-correct by asking them to make a choice between what they said and an alternative answer he supplied.

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The teacher asks students a number of questions in the target language, which theyhave to understand to be able to answer correctly.

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The class included one example of a technique used to give students listeningcomprehension practice. The students were given a map with the geographical feature

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The teacher in this class asked the students to write a paragraph in their own words. They could have done this from memory, or they could have used the reading passage in the lesson as a model.