Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Direct Method
- Characteristics
- Correct pronunciation and grammar were emphasized.
- Classroom instruction was conducted exclusively in
the target language.
- Only everyday vocabulary and sentences were taught.
- Grammar was taught inductively.
- New teaching points were introduced orally.
- Weaknesses
- It required teachers who were native speakers or who had
nativelike fluency in the foreign language.
- It was largely dependent on the teacher’s skill, rather than
on a textbook,
- not all teachers were proficient enough in the foreign
language to adhere to the principles of the method.
- Strengths
- Makes learning very interesting, stablishing direct
bond between a word and its meaning
- facilitates students participation
- students are able to understand what they are learning
- Speech fluency, pronunciation and grammar structures
are developed
- Abilities that focus on
- Oral communication is the goal
- listening comprehention
- grammar and punctuation