The Direct Method

The Direct Method，Can help students develop language techniques and correct language habits，Helps to organize students' thinking and accelerate the direct connection.

The Direct Method

• Background information
  • At the end of the 19th century, Europe and North America accelerated the process of industrialization, international exchanges became more and more frequent
  • As a new language teaching method, the Direct Method reflects the law of modern foreign language teaching more accurately
  • It can meet the requirement of oral communication with languages, So it is quickly appiled to foreign language teaching in schools.
• Development
  • emphasizes the development of language skills and habits through direct communication and expression in the target language
  • emphasizes the practice of pronunciation, intonation and oral English,and advOcates the direct understanding and expression for foreign languages
  • avoiding the use of mother tongue
• Advantages&Disadvantage
  • Advantage：
    • Can help students develop language techniques and correct language habits
    • Helps to organize students' thinking and accelerate the direct connection
  • Disadvantage
    • Confuses learning a foreign language with learming a native language
    • Mistakes the learning of a native language by young children with the learning of a foreign language by students at all ages
    • Overlooks the role of grammar
• Application
  • 1.教学中不使用母语； 2, 以现代对话风格的谈话或轶事开始授课；3. 使用动作或图片解释意义使其更加清楚；4.用归纳法学习语法； 5.从阅读文学作品中得到乐趣，而不对其进行语法分析；6.采用归纳法教授目的语文化； 7. 教师必须来自目的语国家或对目的语达到本国人那样的熟练程 度。