methodology..The Direct Method

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                                           In Language Teaching

The Direct Method.



I In the previous chapter on the Grammar-Translation Method, welearned that grammar was treated deductively. In the Direct Method, The Direct Method 33 Grammar is treated inductively. Can you explain the difference? between deductive and inductive treatments of grammar?
Inductive reasoning is known as bottom-up logic, while deductive reasoning is referred to as the top-down approach. The inductive thinks of something specific to determine a conclusion, while the deductive takes generalized concepts to reach a conclusion.


2 What are some of the characteristics of the Direct Method that make it? so distinctive from the Grammar-Translation Method?
Vocabulary is taught through objects, mimicry, and other visual and material elements. It focuses on oral learning. The work is developed mainly through questions and answers from the teacher to the students. The grammar is assimilated by the inductive procedure.


3 It has been said that it may be advantageous to a teacher using the Direct Method not to know his students' native language. Do you agree? Why?
I would agree if the students were advanced, because it would be the best way for the student to become fully familiar with his main objective, which is to learn a language other than his or her.

B Apply what you have understood about the Direct Method: Each student reads an article of exclusive clothes, each one has to talk about what they read giving their opinion about what they read and classifying certain new words to look for, then they ask to formalize sentences with those same words.


1 Choose a particular situation (such as at the bank, at the railroad station, or at the doctor's office) or a particular topic (such as articles of clothing, holidays, or the weather) and write a short passage or a dialog on the theme you have chosen. Now think about how you will convey its meaning to students without using their native language.

Mount Everest is the highest mountain on planet Earth, with a height of 8848 meters (29 029 feet) above sea level.1 It is located on the Asian continent, in the Himalayas, specifically in the sub-mountain range of Mahalangur Himal; marks the border between China and Nepal. So here I would use the keywords like: mountains, earth, height, meters, border, location so that the students conjugate the words and form paragraphs or sentences.


2 Select a grammar point from the passage. Plan how you will get students to practice the grammar point. What examples can you provide? them with so that they can induce the rule themselves?
I would use the superlative in "Mount Everest is the highest on planet earth"

3 Practice writing and giving a dictation as it is described in this chapter.

When we assemble sentences we can see that we use several verb tenses so we can more easily identify which times are being worked on, in the case of the text read above those lines where it says: that Mount Everest is in a simple present tense.

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