DIRECT METHOD

DIRECT METHOD Also called natural approach used in teaching foreign language

Established and in the 1900`s and contrast with the Grammar Translation Method.Method focuses on the development of oral skills.Teaching concepts vocabulary through pantomiming,real life objects and other visual materials.

Teaching grammar Inductive approachCentrality of spoken language.Focus on Q-A patterns.

PRINCIPLESClassroom instructions are conducted exclusively in the target language.Initial phase only everyday vocabulary and sentences are taught.Intermediate phase grammar reading writingOral communication skills are built in a carefully progression organized around Q-A exchanges between teachers and students in small intensive classes.New teaching points are introduced orally.Concrete vocabulary is taught through

demonstration objects pictures by association of ideas Speech and listening comprehensions are taught.

Grammar and pronunciation are emphasized.

Students should speak the 80% of the class.

Students should ask questions from the begining and answer them.

The assumption that a second language can be learnt in exacltly the same way as the first, when in fact the conditions under which a second language is learnt are very different.

Series Method Francois Gouin in the 19th century.

Hamburg to learn German. Memorizes a German book grammar and a list of 248 irregular verbs. He went to the academy to test his new languages skills but he was disappointed that he couldn`t understand anything.

Try again memorizing the 800 root-words of the language as well as rememorizing the grammar and the verb forms. So, he isolated himself and tried to learn by listening ,imitating and conversing with the Germans around him, but he found out that his constructed sentences often caused native German speakers to laugh.

When he was at home again, he found that his three year old nephew had learnt to speak French. The boy was very curious and ask the name of everythig. After digesting the experience silently, he then described his experience in play, talking about what he learnt.

Gouin decide that language learning was a matter of transforming perceptions into conceptions using language to represent what one experiences.

efficiently to learn sentences to speak than words. Verbs are the key element in sentences, and that sentences are more easily learned when they form a narrative.